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“We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little.”

People Men Littles Facts Earth Pain Understanding Generations Remembered Proportion Sensibility Unwise

Book:The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872

Source: The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872

“I desire a violent, domineering, fearless, and ferocious upcoming generation. It must be able to bear pain. It must show no signs whatsoever of weakness or tenderness. The free and magnificent predator must once again glint from their eyes.”

Shows Eye Able Pain Desire Generations Bears Weakness Violent Fearless Tenderness Magnificent Predator

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?”

Men Needs Should Care Pain Powerful Generations Waste Killing Innocent Inevitable Submit Reign Men Women Powerful Women Massacres Powerful Man

Author:Natalie Clifford Barney

“For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.”

Pain Names Generations Team Land Football Racism Legacy Native Native American Reminders Football Team

Author:Dan Maffei

“We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.”

Life Today Pain Used Generations Used To Be Usual Better Life Descendants

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.”

Source: Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street