Emasculation Quotes

• I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Race, Risk, Violence

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• We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.

  David Fincher

  Fighting, Shopping, Overcoming

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• Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Bravery, Coward

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

  Plato

  Wise, Mob Rule, Watches

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• Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.

  Patrick Wilson

  Doe, Roles, Theme

  "Q&A – Barry Munday’s Patrick Wilson and Judy Greer on Losing Their Hearts (and Their Private Parts)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. September 2010.

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• It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Believe, Years

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.60, Lulu Press, Inc

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• More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional monarch. Again, gender mattered. If Albert had lived, it seems clear that he would have resisted that development much more tenaciously, which the gradual emasculation (and feminization) of monarchy was probably more easily accomplished when a woman was on the throne.

  David Cannadine

  Queens, Should Have, Sovereign

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