“Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.” IfsMenFeelsHas BeensWould BePainMovingFeltCausesFrontsHe ManBlowLegsDestroyedNosesPreservationLimbsJointsForeheads Book:Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo
“We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.” MenFirstsHumansMadeWarPayHe ManCostMajorsGunWeightDestroyedHuman LifeBowsBoomerang Author:Olive Schreiner
“The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.” MenFirstsHas BeensGodReligiousHe ManOughtDestroyed Author:Denis Diderot
“I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.” MenYearsStillsWrittenStreetsHe ManPaperStoresDestroyedGrandmotherJournalMy GrandmotherPapersEssays Author:Maya Angelou
“The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.” IfsMenWellsHeartMeanSaidEndsSometimesBodySpiritTermWalksAliveRiskHe ManBrokenVictorySurvivalPrisonSentencesDestroyedGatesJailSurvivedCradleSmall Victories Author:Gregory David Roberts