I Quotes
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“If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts.”
“If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.”
“If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.”
“If men are looking for stability in love, then surely women are also looking for security.”
“If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?”
“If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.”
Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans.”
“If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?”
Source: The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin
“If men are Stars, then women are Sky; there's no marvel without either of them.”
“If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.”
Source: Democracy in America
“If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.”
“If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.”
Source: The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow
“If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.”
Source: Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words
“If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.”
“If men built it, it’s not a refuge. Only God possesses that kind of material and only He has the craftsmanship to use it.”
“If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the apex of its development; if they can be made to understand that the conflicts and contradictions of society can only be resolved by scientific long-range planning-then we will succeed in maintaining what civilization we have and drive onward to greater culture.”
“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956
“If men can lift more weight when exposed to sexual images, then it’s obvious, like with color, you can trigger your mind into different states of performance.”
Source: sciVive
“If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?”
“If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.”
“If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare
“If men could become pregnant – or be legally raped, or understand the unsubtle differences between ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – I am certain they would soon change their tune about abortion and the treatment and trivialization of the suffering of rape victims.”
Source: Pearls Before Swine
“If men could become pregnant - or be legally raped, or understand the unsubtle differences between 'yes' and 'no', i am certain you would soon see them change their tune about abortion and the treatment and trivialization of the suffering of rape victims.”
Source: Blachart: Galaxii Series Book 1
“If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks - two on every block and four in every airport. And the morning-after pill would come in different flavors like sea salt and cool ranch.”
“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.”
“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.”
“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
“If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.”
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.”
Source: Shirley
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.”
Source: Shirley and The Professor
“If men create intelligent machines, or fantasize about them, it is either because they secretly despair of their own intelligence or because they are in danger of succumbing to the weight of a monstrous and useless intelligence which they seek to exorcize by transferring it to machines, where they can play with it and make fun of it. By entrusting this burdensome intelligence to machines we are released from any responsibility to knowledge, much as entrusting power to politicians allows us to disdain any aspiration of our own to power.
If men dream of machines that are unique, that are endowed with genius, it is because they despair of their own uniqueness, or because they prefer to do without it - to enjoy it by proxy, so to speak, thanks to machines. What such machines offer is the spectacle of thought, and in manipulating them people devote themselves more to the spectacle of thought than to thought itself.
It is not for nothing that they are described as 'virtual', for they put thought on hold indefinitely, tying its emergence to the achievement of a complete knowledge. The act of thinking itself is thus put off for ever. Indeed, the question of thought can no more be raised than the question of the freedom of future generations, who will pass through life as we travel through the air, strapped into their seats. These Men of Artificial Intelligence will traverse their own mental space bound hand and foot to their computers. Immobile in front of his computer, Virtual Man makes love via the screen and gives lessons by means of the teleconference. He is a physical - and no doubt also a mental cripple. That is the price he pays for being operational. Just as eyeglasses and contact lenses will arguably one day evolve into implanted prostheses for a species that has lost its sight, it is similarly to be feared that artificial intelligence and the hardware that supports it will become a mental prosthesis for a species without the capacity for thought.
Artificial intelligence is devoid of intelligence because it is devoid of artifice.”
Source: The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
“If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.”
“If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves..." If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds the world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by His power, was to make Himself visible, - I say, if you were to see Him today, you would see Him like a man in form - like yourself in all the person, image, and very form as a man.”
“If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.”
Source: Assorted Prose
“If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.”
Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
“If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.”
Source: The works of William Chillingworth, 1: in three volumes
“If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.”
“If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.”
“If men felt empowered to talk about sex with their partner, especially before any sexual relationship has occurred, many harmful situations could perhaps be avoided. Many men see talking about sex as embarrassing, awkward or feminine. To avoid our boys becoming men who harm women, we need to encourage them to talk openly about sex and their feelings towards it. We need to encourage them to want to talk about sex with women, to see it as a part of the process of love and relationships, instead of leaving communication as solely the burden of the feminine partner to take on. Consent doesn't have to necessarily be sexy, but it should have to be talked about in an open and understanding way.”
Source: The Way We Survive: Notes on Rape Culture
“If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.”
“If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.”
Source: In Evil Hour
“If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.”
“If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to do it unless there had been some good in it.”
“If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.”
“If men had more up top we'd need less up front”
“If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.”
Source: The Women
“If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.”
“If men have a smell it's usually an accident.”