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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.

– John UpdikeRate it:

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

– Gloria SteinemRate it:

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making

– Herbert SpencerRate it:

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

– James MadisonRate it:

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

– Baruch SpinozaRate it:

If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.

– Barbara EhrenreichRate it:

If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.

– William PennRate it:

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.

– Joseph AddisonRate it:

If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

– Samuel AdamsRate it:

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

– Georg Christoph LichtenbergRate it:

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

– Francis BaconRate it:

If money can help treat and cure the sick and the poor, then why is it considered evil in the first place? Isn't poverty the biggest disease of every generation?

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

If money does not make you happy, give it back.

– Jules RenardRate it:

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

– Henry FordRate it:

If money is your only standard, then consider that, by your lights, someone who loses their nose does not suffer any harm.

– Marcus AureliusRate it:

If money, or wealth in general, is truly the root of all evil, how come the majority of people want to succeed in life?

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

If monopoly persists, monopoly will always sit at the helm of government. I do not expect monopoly to restrain itself. If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

– Woodrow WilsonRate it:

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

– J. R. R. TolkienRate it:

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.

– George Bernard ShawRate it:

If Moroccans were discussing human rights and democracy in cafes the way they discuss Religion we would certainly have taken an important step in democracy

– AMYNE E. QASEMRate it:

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

If most people around a person do not treat him bad to make him sad regularly, then he is most likely to be not a good guy truly.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

If most people could ever understand a person who is truly good, then history would not have witnessed a deluge of cases of a right being insanely treated bad by masses in all generations.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

If movements were a spark, every dancer would desire to light up in flames

– Shah Asad RizviRate it:

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