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It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.
— Mahatma Gandhi
[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.
— Malcolm X
Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.
— Henry David Thoreau
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
— Henry David Thoreau
We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
— Henry David Thoreau
For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.
— JC Ryle
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.
— JRR Tolkien
If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti