Marya Mannes Quotes

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• No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to…
• To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
• Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that…
• Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
• The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
• It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show…
• The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing…
• Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
• It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
• The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what…
• Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife,…
• If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I…
• In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude
• People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
• In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
• For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they…
• The greatest miracle of all, the human being.
• To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.
• Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
• It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

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