“The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.” MenWorldHumansWellsProblemRaceGenerationsEconomicModernMovementHe ManDevelopmentBenefitsSolutionsMen And WomenUltimateImportanceRelationConstantInternationalVariousDoctrineWell BeingDiscussionHuman RaceThemeExceedStandpointModern TimesEconomic ProblemsArbitration Author:William Howard Taft
“Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.” MenCausesViewsAudienceObjectsHe ManBenefitsPleading Author:Livy
“Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.” MenMindPersonsIdeasChoicesEasyLove IsHe ManGratitudeBenefitsBoundsAffectionOur ChoicesHumiliating Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings
“The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.” IfsMenShouldPowerfulWonderRichDogHe ManGratitudeBenefitsCharityInferiorsFavourScrap Author:Lord Chesterfield
“The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest requirement of morality. But in what did the improvement consist? The answer seemed so obvious to them that they did not bother to justify it: the expansion and fulfillment of the material wants of man, and the spread of these benefits, from the few who had once preempted them, to the many who had so long lived on the scraps Dives had thrown into the gutter.” MenWantLongAnswersConditionsHe ManMaterialsMoralityBenefitsHighestPhilosopherObviousSpreadImprovementBotherFulfillmentThrownJustifyConsumerismExpansionRequirementsScrapOverconsumptionGutters Author:Lewis Mumford