"The most frightening pages of history are those……" — Haniel Long
"The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure."
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Haniel Long
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17 Quotes by Haniel Long
Haniel Long has 17 quotes on this site.
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When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.
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For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try…
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All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our…
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And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun…
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the…
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as…
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of…
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To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a…
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A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one…
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and…
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More Conditions Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
— Hannah Arendt
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;…
— Aristotle
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
— Karen Armstrong
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We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's…
— Margaret Atwood
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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always…
— Roger Babson
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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle…
— Bernard Baruch
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
— Saint Basil
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always…
— Jane Addams
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to…
— Annie Besant
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