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“My dear friend, to be both powerful and fair has always been difficult for mankind. Power and justice have always been seen like day and night; this being the case, when one of them is there the other disappears.”

Science Night Difficult Justice Powerful Cases Mankind Fairs Difficulty Dear Disappear Day And Night Dear Friend

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.”

Difficult Virtue Mankind Selfishness

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.”

Men Action Choices Difficult Mankind Ethics Determine Priorities

Author:John Berger

“History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.”

Long Dream Difficult Mankind Confused

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.”

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Author:Albert Camus

“If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation of the press is the most difficult, dangerous and important problem they have to resolve. Mankind cannot now be governed without it, nor at present with it.”

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Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.”

Two Difficult Situation Conditions Mankind Historic Armament

Author:Pope Paul VI

“It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.”

Difficult Mankind Income Things To Do Reasonable Better Things To Do

Author:Hugh Kingsmill

“We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.”

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Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.”

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Book:My Life - Oswald Mosley

Source: My Life - Oswald Mosley

“Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.”

Two Dream Difficult Results Issues Mankind Mortals Gates Confusing Fleeting Horns Polished I Had A Dream Deceptive Ivory Tidings

Author:Homer