Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.

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• A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Better

• I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Future
  • You
  • Know

• The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • May
  • Power
  • Society

• When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Cold

• The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Control
  • Like
  • Difference

• I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Celebrity
  • Pretend
  • Commercial

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Children
  • Father

• I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Political
  • Feel
  • Popular

• I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • Same
  • More
  • Quiet

• I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Happy

• How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Hand
  • Movies
  • See

• Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • People
  • School
  • Parents

• Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Done
  • Power
  • Politics

• Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Creative
  • Entrepreneur

• I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Kids
  • Democracy
  • Disrespect

• Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Society

• We came from an era when women normally did not rock.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Women
  • Rock
  • ERA

• The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Women
  • Society
  • Spirit