Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men – and the fools know it. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. – Clare Boothe Luce