If everyone is a
If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It’s only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning. Gao Xingjian
Mankind
Within the Arab circle
Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me that this role is beckoning to us-to move, to take up its lines, put on its costumes and give it life. Indeed, we are the only ones who can play it. The role … Read more
I think writers are
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves. Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Dreams are the way
Dreams are the way to unfulfilled wishes in the individual; visions are the way to unfulfilled dreams in mankind. Gabrielle Bernstein
The crowd neither wants
The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear. G. I. Gurdjieff
Pride adversely affects all
Pride adversely affects all our relationships – our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind. Ezra Taft Benson
All the forms of
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. Most of the states, of all ages …have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history …the military history of all … Read more
All the forms of
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. Ezra Stiles
The right of conscience
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right. Ezra Stiles
There is no ordinary
There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters. Evelyn Waugh