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Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu
Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
Man | Men | Sacrifice | Self | Self-sacrifice |
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
Religion: What at one time was a dynamic structure, mediating between man and his destiny and interpersonal responsibilities, has become mere mechanical ritual that dwarfs men rather than strengthens them.
The men who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about. Their minds are illuminated by the blazing sun of hope. They never stop to doubt. They haven't time.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
It is more philosophical to put our relations with things and men on such a footing as to treat the world as the common country of us all.
Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu
Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
The history of mankind is crowded with evidences proving that physical coercion is not adapted to moral regeneration; that the sinful dispositions of men can be subdued only by love; that evil can be exterminated from the earth only by goodness… that there is great security in being gentle, harmless, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy; that it is only the meek who shall inherit the earth, for the violent, who resort to the sword, are destined to perish with the sword.
Coercion | Earth | Evil | History | Love | Mankind | Men | Mercy | Security | Suffering |
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
One instance of the innate and ineradicable inequality of men is their tendency to fall into two classes of leaders and followers. The latter constitute the vast majority; they stand in need of an authority which will make decisions for them and to which they for the most part offer an unqualified submission. This suggests that more care should be taken than hitherto to educate an upper stratum of men with independent minds, not open to intimidation and eager in the pursuit of truth, whose business it would be to give direction to the dependent masses.
Authority | Business | Care | Inequality | Intimidation | Majority | Men | Need | Submission | Truth | Will | Business |
If men are so wicked as we now see them with religion, what would they be if without it?
Al-Hariri, full name Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Al-Hariri NULL
The worst of men is he whose today falls short of his yesterday.
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Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved when mediocre women occupy high positions.
Ambition is not a reprehdnsible quality, nor are ambitious men to be censured, if they seek glory through honorable and honest means. In fact, it is they who produce great and excellent works. Those who lack this passion are cold spirits, inclined towards laziness than activity. But ambition is pernicious and detestable when it has as its sole end power.
Ambition | Glory | Laziness | Means | Men | Passion | Power | Ambition |