"Borders are scratched across the hearts of men……" — Marya Mannes
"Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red."
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51 Quotes by Marya Mannes
Marya Mannes has 51 quotes on this site.
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No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he…
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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we…
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Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
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The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to…
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It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous…
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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting…
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Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
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It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
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The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty…
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Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages…
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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women…
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
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The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest…
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A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side -…
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is…
— Melody Beattie
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of…
— Bob Beauprez
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
— James Belushi
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
— John Berger
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
— Daniel Berrigan
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Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
— Theodor Adorno
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But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and…
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