"There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man."

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Alan Paton

#Men Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.”
“Overwhelming the majority of European citizens are unhappy with the social deal they get, yes; and that is why they are so angry with their governments. Because they want more, much more! They couldn't care less that their benefits, salaries and other privileges, have been, for decades and centuries 'subsidized' by the plunder of other parts of the planet; that they are paid for by blood.”
“Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.”

Source : Paul Hawken's Commencement Address to the Class at the University of Portland, www.commondreams.org. May 3, 2009.
“Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the true causes of the destruction of states; they have been the ruin of France. Believe me, the evil I denounce is more terrible than the Revolution, more terrible even than The Commune. I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism, and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.”
“One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!”
“I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.”
“Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.”
“Attack if you can attack, defend if you can't attack, flee if you can't defend, surrender if you can't flee, die if you can't surrender!”

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