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We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.

For seasons and seasons and seasons all our movement has been going against our self a journey into our killer’s desire.

John F. Kennedy

The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

George Santayana

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.

That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of its own species.

Every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect only once in this way and never again.

Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.

Man is an abyss and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: ‘There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.’

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.