Quotes About Subjectivity

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.

You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, and that's not saying much for you

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and it's up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.

One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.