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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without knowing that they are common to all the rest of the species
Samuel Johnson
A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw
In a reality known as the garden of beautiful eden, Adam is dreaming about his sinful children on earth.He is struggling to wake up from a terrible nightmare.
Toba Beta
I hope... that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race
Mark Twain
Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago! There's a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder, and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again!
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young
Man is his own star; and the soul that canRender an honest and a perfect manCommands all light, all influence, all fate.Nothing to him falls early, or too late.Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
John Fletcher, Upon an
We are wiser than we know.
Etiquette requires us to admire the human race
There are such repulsive faces in the world.
Leo Tolstoy
The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
Albert Einstein
Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors
Plato
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi
What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.
Antoine De SaintExupery
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.
Aristotle
We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
Gloria Steinem
We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.
William Shakespeare
I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.
Henry David Thoreau
