Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable read more

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and read more

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the read more

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All read more

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; read more

While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prision, I am not free. -Eugene V Debs.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; read more

Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each of us allowed the eternal purports of the earth; Each of us here as divinely as any is here. -Walt Whitman.