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- Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
- Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
- To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), An Essay on Criticism
- Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
- Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame
- The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.
- S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
- The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.
- Unknown
- All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Speech on the Conciliation of America
- To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.
- Unknown
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