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“If animals could speak, mankind would weep.”

Ifs Speak Animal Mankind

Author:Anthony Douglas

“We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of mankind reflects itself. Therefore, in tracing words to their origins, we are tracing simultaneously civilization and culture to their real roots.”

Thinking Real Whole Dream Spiritual Culture Speak Language Mankind Development Civilization Roots Mirrors Spiritual Development Tracing

Author:Ernest Klein

“We must remember that those mortals we meet in parking lots, offices, elevators, and elsewhere are that portion of mankind God has given us to love and to serve. It will do us little good to speak of the general brotherhood of mankind if we cannot regard those who are all around us as our brothers and sisters.”

Ifs Littles Remember Speak Given Mankind Brother Office Regard Mortals Brotherhood Portions Elsewhere Brothers And Sisters Parking Elevators Parking Lot

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.”

Inspirational Mean Art Ends Moving Artist Literature Speak Goal Roles Mankind Reader Tasks Ridiculous Irony Pathetic Specialists Carried Away Pathos

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.”

Mean Different Used Speak Term Consciousness Cases Mankind Objects Thrown Different Things Speakers Eloquence Literary Terms

Book:Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

“If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom as allows the individual to think and speak for himself.”

Ifs Thinking Should Individual Speak Freedom Progress Mankind Depends Speech Mass Objectives Individualism Free Thought

Author:Louis J. Halle

“Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?”

Ifs Left Speak Water Morning Mankind Dawn Sunrise Fountain Prospects Left Out

Book:Tablets

Source: Tablets

“Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.”

Love Should Heart Speak Wonder Break Mankind One Day Angel Delight Jealous Heart Love

Book:The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester

Source: The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester

“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.”

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker

“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”

Inspirational Mind Action Speak Mankind Thoughtful Live By Patriotic Purpose Of Life Thoughtful Mind

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”

People Men Sometimes Speak Animal Mankind Cruelty Beast Offensive Unjust Deep Thought

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.”

Ifs Men Humans Hate Humanity Speak Nations Effort Race Class Middle Mankind Strange Kings Despair Soldier Curious Middle Class Priests Adore Distrust Humane Sailor Dividing Working Man

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.”

Speak Mankind Instinct Response Intuition Persuasion Criminal Mind

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.”

Ifs States Speak Social Party Mankind Policy Morality Social Policy

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn