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"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will--his personal responsibility."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their numbers."
-- Aldous Huxley

"Man is more powerful than matter."
-- Benjamin Disraeli

"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."
-- Bertrand Russell

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-- H. G. Wells

"Men have become the tools of their tools."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."
-- Henry Miller

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."
-- James Allen

"A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing."
-- Joseph Conrad

"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's anything really meaningful to say."
-- Kurt Vonnegut

"Man cannot live by incompetence alone."
-- Laurence J. Peter

"I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders."
-- Leo Tolstoy

"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."
-- Leo Tolstoy

"Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
-- Mark Twain

"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."
-- Mark Twain

"Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."
-- Mark Twain

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
-- Oscar Wilde

"A man's what he thinks about all day long."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People only see what they are prepared to see."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it."
-- Sigmund Freud

"Everyone is guilty of the good they didn't do."
-- Voltaire

"I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail."
-- William Faulkner