A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. – John Stuart Mill

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? – Vincent Van Gogh

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley