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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause…
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him…
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility…
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect…
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in…
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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about…
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
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Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can…
— Jose Mujica
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The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle…
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The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or…
— Plato
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It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.
— Bulent Ecevit
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If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.
— Anne Boleyn
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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And…
— Marie de France
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Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his…
— Horatius Bonar
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