30,129 Quotes About Men
- Author Edward Abbey
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I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.
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I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
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- Author Edward Abbey
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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself - not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.
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Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.
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- Author Edwin Arnold
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Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.
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A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.
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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
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