Hypatia Quotes

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

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• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Real
  • History

• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Great
  • Book
  • Truth

• High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Men
  • High
  • Girl

• The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Truth
  • Plan
  • Truth Is

• A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Human

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Care

• I want to do a make-up line for men.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Want

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Fear
  • Sometimes
  • Wrong

• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Men
  • History

• Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • People
  • Like
  • Chance

• What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Live
  • Try

• Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Men
  • Kind

• I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Men
  • Women
  • Care

• My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

  

  Al Goldstein
  • Men

• I think women - relative to men - tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of everything else. This becomes even worse once you have kids. It's enough to have a full time job; a full time job plus a family is even more.

  

  Emily Oster
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• To fish in troubled waters.

  

  Matthew Henry

• Oxford walls have a way of belittling us; and the Duke was loath to regard his doom as trivial. Aye, by all minerals we are mocked. Vegetables, yearly deciduous, are far more sympathetic.

  

  Max Beerbohm

• In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

  

  Hypatia
  • Men
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