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Mankind
«Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them»
«Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets: for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say»
«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Civilization,
Freedom,
Mankind
| Keywords:
abridgment, abridgments, encroachment, encroachments, gradual, instances, sudden, The General, usurpation, violent
«Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds»
«Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.»
Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
| About:
Death and dying,
Life,
Mankind,
Youth
| Keywords:
alas, delay, fang, fangs, grinning, in a moment, obtain, perishes, release, surprising, The Conduct of Life, unstable
«Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.»
«So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity - to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him - thi»
«Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Family,
Mankind,
Social service
| Keywords:
bring up, rendered, social service