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“Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.”

States Church Cities Education Mankind Function

Author:Philip Wylie

“All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?”

Kind Would Be Care Nations Race Cities Groups Mankind Capable Spring Ideals Belonging

Author:Louis Dudek

“[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe.”

Humans Together Suffering Human Beings Cities Taken Groups Mankind Storm Destroyed Village Flood Catastrophe Hurricanes Earthquakes Epidemics Eruption Volcanic Eruptions

Book:The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation

Source: The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation

“At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.”

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Author:Edward Gibbon

“You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”

Ifs Grows Cities Magic Mankind Spring Standards Crosses Gold Presses Grass Labour Broads Farms Crowns Favour Thorns Brows Fertile Great Cities Gold Standard Crown Of Thorns

Author:William Jennings Bryan

“And the Lord said: I burn down your cities - how blind you must be. I take from you your children, and you say how blessed are we. You all must be crazy to put your faith in me. That's why I love mankind.”

Children Said Cities Lord Crazy Mankind Our Children Blessed Blind Your Children Being Crazy

Author:Randy Newman

“How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?”

Wells Doe Problem Cities Mankind Sacred

Author:Willi Unsoeld

“One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.”

People States Age Cities Mankind Revenge Arrogance Modesty Exhibits Dealing With People Unassuming

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.”

Men Believe Cities Mankind Destruction Refuse London Contemplating Ingenuity Inhuman Equanimity Evacuation

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.”

Men World Should Doe Made Earth Mother Community Animal Cities Mistake Worst Mankind Building Evidence Mental Health Isolation Mother Earth Gregarious

Author:Ralph Borsodi

“You either choose to view America as the shining city on the hill that inspires the best in all mankind, or you don't.”

America Views Cities Mankind Inspire Shining Hills

Author:Mike Pence

“If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.”

Source: Symposium

“Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.”

Cities Existence Millions Alive Tree Mankind Creation Horror Ideals Mere Accumulation Abolish Parasites Swollen

Book:St Mawr and Other Stories

Source: St Mawr and Other Stories

“A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and - above all - responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.”

Looks Self Individual Cities Liberty Principles Destiny Mankind Discipline Morality Responsible Shining Hills Self Discipline Self Reliance Reliance Pleading Rendezvous

Author:Ronald Reagan