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- People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like…
- The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.
- We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources…
- Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
- We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex…
- When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model…
- Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to…
- All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
- Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and…
- One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong…
- Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to…
- Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to…
- Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children…
- The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved,…
- There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
- Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the…
- Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support,…
- The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
- We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
- Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion…
- Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
- No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have…
- A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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