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What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! (Adams Douglas)
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. (Adams Douglas)
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock. (Adams Douglas)
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man. (Adams Douglas)
Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this. (Adams Douglas)
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another. (Adams Douglas)
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. (Adams Douglas)
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. (Adams Douglas)
Man is a substance clad in shadows. (Adams Douglas)
Every man has a sane spot somewhere. (Adams Douglas)
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. (Adams Douglas)
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. (Adams Douglas)
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. (Adams Douglas)
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me. (Adams Douglas)
One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight. (Adams Douglas)
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. (Adams Douglas)
Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other. (Adams Douglas)
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance. (Adams Douglas)
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. (Adams Douglas)
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously. (Adams Douglas)
Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. (Adams Douglas)
People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened. (Adams Douglas)
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind for wisdom. (Adams Douglas)
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. (Adams Douglas)
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. (Adams Douglas)
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