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“The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.”

Past Spirit Steps Mankind Masters Birth Slave Notion Visible Iron Reverse Savages Forefathers

Author:James G. Frazer

“Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.”

Art Made Father Enjoy Sleep Opinion Progress Generations Mankind Son Birth All Things Establishment Bells Advancement Completing

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Historian

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Historian

“I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive enjoyment from too few things. Sometimes these crises give birth to something worth while, sometimes they simply plunge one deeper into depression, but, of course, it is all part of the same thing.”

Knows Giving Sometimes Dream Courses Literature Know How Mankind Birth Despair Depression Crisis Deeper Immortality Enjoyment Relative Plunge

Book:Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

Source: Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

“When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.”

Feels Wells Persons Remember Mankind Birth Importance Probability

Author:Charles Simmons

“You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.”

Would Be Order Numbers Mankind Birth Tables Strive Favors Bread Guests Artificial Irrational Diminish Banquets

Book:Christian Values and Virtues

Source: Christian Values and Virtues

“And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.”

World Culture Mankind Birth Disappear Recalls Tested Stamps Leavers

Book:Ishmael: A Novel

Source: Ishmael: A Novel

“I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.”

Attitude Mankind Dangerous Birth Catholic Divorce Officials Censorship Birth Control

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect for life, even with regard to the great problem of the birth rate, must find here in your Assembly its highest affirmation and its most rational defense. Your task is to ensure that there is enough bread on the tables of mankind, and not to encourage an artificial control of births, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.”

“The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.”

Science Common Air Mankind Birth Ocean

Author:Thomas Jefferson