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“But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.”

Men Humans Important Form Political Social Interest Human Beings Animal Relation Fellows Absorbing Political Animals

Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“Man must get back to himself before he can learn his relation to his fellows. Prometheus chained to the Rock of Ages is doomed to remain the prey of the vultures of darkness. Unbind Prometheus, and you dispel the night and its horrors.”

Men Age Night Darkness Rocks Horror Relation Fellows Get Back Doomed Prey Chained Vulture Prometheus

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics, and very probably at some time, Jews. I have consistently tried while President to act in relation to my fellow Americans of Catholic faith as I hope that any future President who happens to be Catholic will act towards his fellow Americans of Protestant faith. Had I followed any other course I should have felt that I was unfit to represent the American people.”

Source: Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The big stick, 1905-1909

“Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.”

Men Needs Natural Relation Fellows Impulse Fellow Man Prompts Needs Of Others

Book:Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

“... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.”

Work Relation Fellows Workers Wages Annoyed Fellow Workers

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.”

Feels Should Humans Kind Important Natural Human Beings Attitude Environment Relation Fellows Peaceful Gentle Natural Environment

Book:My Tibet

Source: My Tibet

“Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to use the word - inclusion, which would otherwise be absent from our societies.”

Matter Use Feelings Community Compassion Building Relation Fellows Dare Our Society Inclusion Absent Community Building Fellow Feeling

Author:Rowan Williams

“As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.”

Men Love Mean Soul Ends Christian Love Is Break Concern Relation Catholic Fellows Neighbor Anguish Fellow Man God Is Love Means To An End

Author:Edith Stein

“The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.”

“There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.”

Men Feelings Differences Justice Function Relation Fellows Wounds Consideration Fellow Man

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.”

Humans Motivation Leadership Relation Fellows Fundamentals Tapping Wellspring

Author:Tom Peters

“At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.”

Needs Feelings Time Hate Social Influence Pride Relation Fellows Moved Pity Sympathy Social Being

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words