“Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.” MenGivingMayStillsFactsFeelingsDestinyPrideEvolutionHigherScalesSummitRisenExertionOrigin Of Man Book:The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality Source: The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality
“The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.” FactsLibertyImportanceCorruptionConspiracyRisenColonists Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.” MenHumansMadeSelfFactsProblemHandsEyeLawLife IsSongIndividualNationsSocialPathFeetOceanUglySolveRevengeTeethHuman LifeRisingSpiteTidesPursuedRisenRecurringSocial ProblemsRetaliationWreckage Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.