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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

“As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.”

Long Earth Mankind Messages Fairs Window Mark Secure Bless Guests Bores Dove Relics Ark

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden, with Biographical and Critical Notices, Edited by Ludwig Gantter

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden, with Biographical and Critical Notices, Edited by Ludwig Gantter

“O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?”

Men World Way Earth Lasts Spirit Wise Mankind Highest Angel Fairs Creator Feminine Defects Masculine Novelty

Author:John Milton

“The most remarkable change in the moral history of mankind has been the rise - and occasionally the application - of the view that all people, and not just one's own kind, are entitled to fair treatment.”

People Kind Has Beens War Views Moral Mankind Fairs Just One Remarkable Treatment Application Entitled

Book:The Moral Sense

Source: The Moral Sense

“Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.”

Mankind Fairs Betterment

Author:Saul Bellow