Average Man Quotes - Page 6

• Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Average, Desire

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

  Elbert Hubbard

  Believe, Men, Average

  The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest Volume XI, July 1900 (p. 36)

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• The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Thinking, Average

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• The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.

  Unknown

  Successful, Warrior, Men

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• And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with his daily life and thought.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Expression, Average

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• The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control. Since it is impossible to count on enough moral goodwill among those who possess irresponsible power to sacrifice it for the good of the whole, it must be destroyed by coercive methods and these will always run the peril of introducing new forms of injustice in place of those abolished.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Running, Real, Sacrifice

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.21, Westminster John Knox Press

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• There is some argument about who actually invented text messaging, but I think it's safe to say it was a man. Multiple studies have shown that the average man uses about half as many words per day as women, thus text messaging. It eliminates hellos and goodbyes and cuts right to the chase.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Goodbye, Cutting, Men

  "Has Texting Killed Romance?" by Ashton Kutcher, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 8, 2010.

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• Unions are the result of profit seekers. Unions are the way the average guy gets even with evil corporateers. The unions are godsends. The unions have a special status, because they represent the rising up of the average man against the evil corporateers and profiteers.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Average, Rising Up

  "For-Profit Medicine Under Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. January 9, 2013.

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• Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Sex, Men, Average

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.44, BookBaby

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• There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

  Golda Meir

  Men, Average, Doubt

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• Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

  Burt Reynolds

  Marriage, Men, Average

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• beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Love Is, Men

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.149, Canongate Books

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• The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Hate, Men, Average

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if I can lighten the load for some of those guys with my books, fine. but literature, you know, is difficult for the average man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too); I don't like most poetry, for example, so I write mine the way I like to read it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, Writing, Men

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• the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Men, Average

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• Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Average, Illusion

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “The Wild Duck”, p.85, Jester House Publishing

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• The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Average, Justice

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Second Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.113, Vintage

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• The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

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• ...When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly." "And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man's intellect to kick in.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Thinking, Average

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.763, Dell

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• To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is my conviction that the intellect can be certain that in doing what most disconcerts the crowd, in pursuing the most daring, unconventional advances and explorations, it will in some highly indirect fashion serve man - and in the long run, all men.

  Thomas Mann

  Running, Fashion, Art

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• It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Men, Average

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.115, Taylor Trade Publications

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• I think a smart woman can sell the average man anything.

  Leo Burnett

  Smart, Men, Thinking

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Average, Saving

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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• The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Average, People

  Sunday Times Signal from Zanesville, Ohio, March 15, 1931.

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• There is a limited elite that understands the secrets of their own techniques, but not necessarily of all techniques. These men are close to the seat of modern governmental power. The state is no longer founded on the 'average citizen', but on the ability and knowledge of this elite. The average man is altogether unable to penetrate technical secrets or governmental organization and consequently can exert no influence at all on the state.

  Jacques Ellul

  Men, Average, Organization

  "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, (p. 274), 1964.

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