This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
P. D. Premasiri, fully Pahalawattage Don Premasiri
All the progress humanity has made appears to be endangered by the very technological skills that humans have achieved. We live in an age in which the evils that humans inflict on others have reached unparalleled extremes of barbarism.
The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and a man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
Humanity | Inhumanity | Man | Reverence |
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.
Humanity | Inhumanity | Life | Life | Man |
Patience does not mean indifference. We may work and trust and wait, but we ought not to be idle or careless while waiting.
Indifference | Patience | Trust | Waiting | Work |
Modern science has imposed on humanity the necessity of wandering.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, born Anne Spencer Morrow
Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child.
Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a person's own breast. Trust thyself.
Intuition | People | Right | Sense | Trust | Wisdom | Wise |
Arnold J. Toynbee, fully Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Neither race nor environment, taken by itself, can be the positive factor which, within the last six thousand years, has shaken humanity out of its static repose on the level of primitive society and started it on the hazardous quest of civilization.
Civilization | Humanity | Race | Repose | Society | Society |
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
I repeat … that all power is a trust - that we are accountable for its exercise - that, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
All power is a trust - that we re accountable for its exercise.