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- I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the…
- The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings…
- If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall.…
- Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.
- Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He…
- So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.
- A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.
- I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think…
- Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear…
- In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
- In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And…
- Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.
- If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I…
- Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most…
- In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.
- An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of…
- And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had…
- You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War…
- I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence…
- All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could…
- It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over…
- Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.
- War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of…
- The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
- Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle