There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Eric Hoffer

Tags: society philosophy mankind understanding living-together



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We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

William Shakespeare

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All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.

David Baldacci

Tags: war change civilization mankind poverty journalism detachment awards pulitzer-prize war-reporting



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No man is an island, entire of itself.

John Donne

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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

Jasper Fforde

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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

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He blinked at the sun and dreamt that perhaps he might snare it and spare it as it went down to its resting place amidst the distant hills.

H.G. Wells

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To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.
But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.

Toba Beta

Tags: mankind ignorance doom remember repetition prehistory horrible



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Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tags: animals mankind creation destruction-of-nature



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