William Morris Quotes
Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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The prescience of the founding fathers continues to astonish me. They were freedom fighters. They made America. They gave us this magical country. They also were slaveowners - which is confusing to their legacy. How could such brilliant men have only secured freedom for themselves, but not their wives or their slaves?
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The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.
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You come to a point in your life and you may be in bed just thinking about it. Ask yourself what is stopping you from becoming your dreams
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And just as you can find hip-hop lyrics beating up on all these groups, including young Black men themselves, the primary producers of the music, you can also find lyrics celebrating them.
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Remember this: For all the ugliness in the world there is far more beauty. For all the cruelty there is far more kindness. And remember one more thing: Those who remind you of this simple fact-keep them close
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Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
