“In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection”
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“In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world”
“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler”
“Association with human beings lures one into self-observation”
“Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.”
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ”
“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further”
“That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity”
“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite”
“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer”
“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish”
“Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?”
“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer”
“Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man”
“The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women”
“Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind, it is only the difference in the victim”
“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend”
“If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve”
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided”