„The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort. The superior man thinks of the sanctions of law; the small man thinks of favors which he may receive.“

— Confucius

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„The tragedy of a thoughtless man is not that he doesn't think, but that he thinks that he's thinking.“
— Andrzej Majewski
„This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?“
— Marilyn Manson
„I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom... [and] the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.“
— H.L. Mencken
„Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.“
— H.L. Mencken
„Out of the shadow of the abstract man, who thinks for the pleasure of thinking, emerges the organic man, who thinks because of a vital imbalance, and who is beyond science and art.“
— Emil M. Cioran