“The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.” MenLittlesHas BeensSaidFactsEyeSocialAchievementBlindRelateAspirationGreat Men Author:James Loeb
“For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated.” DoeHas BeensWarMoralViolenceCenturyCommitmentBlindJustifiedDiplomacyCriteriaPacifism Book:The Jimmy Carter Library Source: The Jimmy Carter Library
“I never heard a wood thrush until I was a grown man, though I must have been surrounded by them every spring. Each year I discover new sights and sounds to teach me how blind and deaf I must still be.” MenYearsHas BeensStillsSoundTeachHeardSpringSightBlindWoodsDeafGrown ManSight And SoundThrush Author:Louis J. Halle
“Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that.” FirstsHas BeensFunAmountBlindCancerPoisonBreastsMassiveBreast CancerBlind Date Author:Molly Ivins
“Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.” FeelsBelieveHas BeensHappensCoursesHalfCryBlindFortuneStormRageCalamityReversal Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. .... but after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another... I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head...” MenWorldYearsHas BeensWarEvilSocialUnderstandingProduceBlindMovedStructureWar Of The WorldsRemoveOne ManHoneyWorld War IBeesGoodwillSecond World WarReorganisation Author:William Golding