Be Remembered

“In all of human existence, our greatest desire is to be remembered.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Man Must Evolve

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good and Evil

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts.”
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Welfare State

“It may perhaps be incorrect to picture the welfare state as the high-water mark of human attainment. It may merely prove to be one more regular milestone in the life-story of an ageing and decrepit empire.”
--John Bagot Glubb

Fear of Death

“The fear of death, the desire to survive at any cost or price in human degradation, has been the greatest ally of tyranny, past and present.”
--Sidney Hook

Assumed Error

“One of the most common vulnerabilities exploited is the natural human tendency to assume a discrepancy is the result of an error rather than a product of a deliberate act.”
--Sidney McNeil Gutierrez

Spiritual Beings

“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Hand Over Freedom

“Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.”
--Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love, Hate and Fear

“I used to think love and hate were the two most powerful human emotions, but I was wrong. They are not even within the same galaxy of fear.”
--Unknown

Equality Outcomes

“Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth cannot be produced by human institutions.”
--Andrew Jackson

Magic Trick

“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”
--Tennessee Williams

Growth Limits

“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”
--Ronald Reagan

Free from Bias

“It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.”
--Simone de Beauvoir

Settle for Less

“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”
--Thomas Merton

Honorable Relationship

“An honorable human relationship -- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word ‘love’ – is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.”
--Adrienne Rich

Certain Size Greatness

“Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.”
--Phillips Brooks

Rejects Change

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”
--Harold Wilson

Human Freedoms

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
--Viktor E. Frankl

A Great Equalizer

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men.”
--Horace Mann

A Favorable Wind

“It is perhaps an all-too-human frailty to suppose that a favorable wind will blow forever.”
--Richard Bode