Humanity

Funny but True!

"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal." H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 -...

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Freedom & Security

"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither." Benjamin...

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"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906) US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 -...

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Humanity & Education

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." H. G. Wells, Outline of History (1920) English author, historian, & utopian (1866 -...

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History & Crime

"Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes." Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 -...

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Knowledge

"Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life." Helen...

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Humanity and Community

"We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human...

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Community

"For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other." Millard...

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Value

"Good people are remembered long after they are gone, but the wicked are soon forgotten." Solomon a king of Israel and a...

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"The future lies in the strength with which people can set their powers of creation against their impulses for destruction. Perhaps this is the unending frontier." Marjorie Stoneman...

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