Vilfredo Pareto Quotes

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior: she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Feminists want to be treated equally until they are.

Every now and then I am reminded that even though the need for being a feminist is gradually disappearing in this country, we haven't quite reached the millennium.

[Women’s subjugation to men] is one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

One thing standing in the way of further progress for many men is the same obstacle that held women back for so long: overinvestment in their gender identity instead of their individual personhood.

I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

I figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World', because I believe it's the truth.

At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.