Chauvinism Quotes

“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

“Actually, since I'm gay I think I should count for two guys instead of just one. I mean, in me you get the male point of view and you don't have to worry about me wanting to touch your boobies.”
― P.C. Cast, Marked

“People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when you're hungry and disgust you when you've had your fill.”
― M. Ageyev, Novel with Cocaine

“So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

“Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really need men (or at least not as much and as frequently as every single male chauvinist and every single misogynist believes).”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay

“When a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, requests breakfast and taxi money. In the morning that lady requested breakfast and taxi money. You don't ask for taxi money from somebody who raped you.”
― Julius Malema

“Whenever he realizes that a female is more gifted than him, the average man subconsciously consoles himself with the fact that she does not have even a tiny penis.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I shall not vote for Sen. Obama and it will not be because he—like me and like all of us—carries African genes. And I shall not be voting for Mrs. Clinton, who has the gall to inform me after a career of overweening entitlement that there is 'a double standard' at work for women in politics; and I assure you now that this decision of mine has only to do with the content of her character. We will know that we have put this behind us when [...] we have outgrown and forgotten the original prejudice.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Guy welcomed my breasts warmly. He hugged them like long-lost friends and stared at them with the protectiveness of a mother lion, as if to make sure they didn't decide to get up on their own and leave the two of us alone together in his office. He waved them into a chair and asked if they would like anything to drink. On their behalf, I ordered Perrier.”
― Ally O'Brien, The Agency

“During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and deeply suspect when it came to money in politics. I have never had to take any of that back, whereas if you look up what most of my profession was then writing about the beefy, unscrupulous 'New Democrat,' you will be astonished at the quantity of sheer saccharine and drool. Anyway, I kept on about it even after most Republicans had consulted the opinion polls and decided it was a losing proposition, and if you look up the transcript of the eventual Senate trial of the president—only the second impeachment hearing in American history—you will see that the last order of business is a request (voted down) by the Senate majority leader to call Carol and me as witnesses. So I can dare to say that at least I saw it through.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

“The real woman does not want to be equal but different.”
― Federico Mangahas, Maybe: Incidentally : the satire of Federico Mangahas : essays

“Unlike wealth, poverty of intellect is equally distributed between the sexes and among the races.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If the population is dissatisfied with the condition of society, then the leaders will invariably find a symbolic issue to channel the people’s focus away from any action that threatens the powerful. 'You’re poor? That’s a real shame. Well, look at that rich NFL player who won’t kneel for the national anthem! Doesn’t that disgust you? Aren’t you pissed off about that? Pay no attention to the system that keeps you in poverty, even though you work 40 hours a week and so does your spouse. Instead, focus on Colin Kaepernick not respecting our national theme song and refusing to grovel before our national rag! Don’t be disobedient in your own interest, instead turn on someone being disobedient in his own interest! That’s the American way!'

Make no mistake, for the people upset at Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem, that fight is a moral issue. They’re genuinely incensed that someone doesn’t show proper respect for the very same country that’s fucking them over, especially when it’s someone who has it better than them. 'What does he have to complain about? He makes 20 million a year! I’m stuck in a shitty job! Fuck him!' No. Fuck the corporation who doesn’t compensate you fairly for your shitty job. Fuck the country that lets them get away with it. And most of all, fuck you for being so easily distracted by symbols and pageantry that you don’t stop to take a look at who your real enemies are.”
― T.J. Kirk

“Fear happens inside the brain not inside the womb.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You do not live in America. No such place exists.”
― Tony Kushner, Angels in America

“We would have already reached the maximum number of people our planet can support, if men and boys were the ones who are generally seen as sex objects.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Stop whining about 'how could anyone do such a thing' every time you get poked by a stick. Which part of 'they are bad people, that's what they do' don't you understand?

But you do understand, you make comments such as 'I'm not surprised' on the sufferings of others of equal magnitude.

The problem, therefore, is not of lack of insight. What do you think your problem is?”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“I know, I know, I know that losing a job is incredibly stressful, and particularly for a man, they say it can be like a death in the family...”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Racism stems from the view that a particular race is inherently superior, and therefore more worthy than other races. Chauvinism has it’s roots in the false notion that one gender is ultimately better than another. And speciesism is bolstered by similar sentiments of superiority. Not white supremacy, or male supremacy, but human supremacy, which is as equally biased and nonsensical!! It allows us to feel OK about treating individuals of other species in ways which, all but the most psychopathic among us, would recognise as wrong were we to replace those individuals with members of our own species.”
― Mango Wodzak, Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy

“You have to conclude that your country has run amuck, that the people responsible are insane, that you can not trust your leaders, your President, your general, your parents, your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers, your police, your town, your state, your country, anymore because it is liable to turn upon you for no reason at all, except that for its own security it needs a scapegoat, any scapegoat including you, and there is no appeal possible.”
― James Drought, The Secret

“The feminine continues to be a form of currency, to be traded for money or gender status: undeserving of emotional investment in itself.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

“The Dark Cloud
Is the tragic event that you see that was presented on the news
Is the horrifying excuse for a father that made you change many views
Is the vow that was cynical, two-faced, and did not have heart
Is the bridge between countries that completely fell apart”
― Aida Mandic, The Dark Cloud

“I was slowly becoming aware that chauvinism and sexism was just as marked among many of the Western attendings as it was amongst many of the Saudi and other Arab physicians, as though the climate of the workplace promoted an infectious transmission of male supremacy.”
― Qanta A. Ahmed, In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom

“Chauvinism characterizes both feminism and ‘masculinism’. Proponents of each are all too poised to antagonize the other; as a result, neither is at peace with him/her self.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The hatred of women (or men) is often merely the hatred of humans after it has been diluted by male (or female) chauvinism.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There is nothing worse than chauvinism underpinned by scholarship.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher Series 7 Books Collection Set

“I can't help but wonder if it's because I'm a woman. I can't help but know the answer is yes.”
― Asa Akira, Dirty Thirty: A Memoir

“Don't take this personally, Kit, but your hands are really big. Did you hassle steer?" "No steer," I say. "Only small-handed men.”
― Megan Abbott, Give Me Your Hand