"This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing."
- Herodotus
"The world is my country the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god the future of man is my heaven."
- F. R. Scott
"The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time."
- Pierre Beaumarchais
"There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle."
- Bertrand Russell
"I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish."
- Francoise Sagan
"Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats."
- Sean O'Faolain
"Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly they don't have to sew buttons."
- Heywood Broun
"As vivacity is the gift of women gravity is that of men."
- Joseph Addison
"The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him."
- Immanuel Kant
"Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience."
- Blaise Pascal