Quotes 501 till 520 of 1419.
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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.
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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations.
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.
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If merely ''feeling good'' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
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If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
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If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another
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If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.
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If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
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