“Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.” WorldShouldMomentsWaterDoubtEnvironmentFailingLandMankindBalanceAreasResponsibleRegardFaultsProtectionIceCanadaPeculiarArtificialPollutionAdequateEcologicalLiableArcticDeteriorationEcological Balance Author:Pierre Trudeau
“For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.” HumansHeartMomentsHandsEffortGraceMankindNeededMassSavingSteadyFidelitySaving Grace Book:Notes on Life and Letters Source: Notes on Life and Letters
“There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.” KnowsWorldMayWarSoulMomentsTurnsGirlReadingFatherForgetDestinyGrowingGenerationsMankindMovementSonTerribleHusbandArmyNewspapersVanityCivil WarGreyLimbsNeglectedCorpsesClashEarthquakesUrgencyShatteredBloomingAloofInvadingBandages Book:Daniel Deronda Source: Daniel Deronda
“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in enforcing good behavior on primitive peoples, their association is now counterproductive. Yet at the very moment when they should be decoupled, sanctimonious nitwits are calling for a return to morals based on superstition.” ShouldMayHas BeensMomentsMoralMankindReturnMoralityCallingBehaviorTragedyValuableAssociationSuperstitionsPrimitiveCounterproductiveGood BehaviorSanctimoniousHijacking Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.” MomentsGenerationsInfluenceMankindProduceInstitutionsConvictionEnthusiasmEverlastingAbidingEloquenceBegets Author:James Russell Lowell