I am at peace with God. My conflict is with man.

Machinery should be a blessing to mankind and not a curse.

“Not only had I never made any such complaints, but at political meetings, I had given my suggestions to whatever man was sitting next to me, knowing that if a man offered them, they would be taken more seriously. You white women, Mrs. Greene said kindly, as if reading my mind, if you don’t stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?” 

“Women have to learn how to talk as much as we listen. Men have to learn how to listen as much as they talk.” 

“More than a third of all the men, women, and children on this march perished from cold, starvation, and disease. Thanks to President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act, Cherokee land was left to white farmers who used it to grow cotton with slave labor and to mine gold.” 

“Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger—and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn’t usually mean including women. In” 

I never really think about my gender, first and foremost - until a door is closed to you. Until you can see a parallel opportunity with a man in a similar place in his career and you think, That opportunity is not open to me or my fellow actresses. That's interesting.

“In his biggest sacrifices, man finds the biggest fulfillment”

“Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions, their reasons are always different.”

“There was a distinct class of these gentlemen tramps, young men no longer young, who wouldn't settle down, who disliked polite society and the genteel conventions, but hadn't enough intelligence or enough conceit to think themselves transcendentalists or poets, in the style of Thoreau or of Walt Whitman.”

“The wisest man has something yet to learn.”

“Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.”

“A man is morally free when...he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity”

“The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixotes with a sense for ideals, but mad.”

“Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.”

“The man who is not permitted to own is owned.”

“The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.”

“A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

“I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.” 

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle."

"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man."