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So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

– Harriet Beecher StoweRate it:

So long as there are men there will be wars.

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three problems of the century - the degradation of man by the exploitation of his labour, the ruin of women by starvation and the atrophy of childhood by physical and spiritual night are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words and from a still broader point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this.”

– Victor HugoRate it:

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

– Izaak WaltonRate it:

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

– Roger BaldwinRate it:

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

– Andre GideRate it:

So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

– Robert Louis StephensonRate it:

So long as you are in the Hindu religion, you cannot expect to have freedom of thought.

– Dr. B. R. AmbedkarRate it:

So long as you're facing in the right direction, every step you take is the right step.

– Michael ElliotRate it:

So long as [men] hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged 'good' can justify it -- there can be no peace within a nation and no peace among nations.

– Ayn RandRate it:

So low and hopeless are the finances of the United States, that, the year before last Congress was obliged to borrow money even, to pay the interest of the principal which we had borrowed before. This wretched resource of turning interest into principal, is the most humiliating and disgraceful measure that a nation could take, and approximates with rapidity to absolute ruin: Yet it is the inevitable and certain consequence of such a system as the existing Confederation.

– William Richardson DavieRate it:

So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs.

– Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Old postcardRate it:

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

– Ella Wheeler WilcoxRate it:

So many men so many questions.

– TerenceRate it:

So many men so many questions. (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)

– TerenceRate it:

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

– John HaldaneRate it:

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

– Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996Rate it:

So many people dream a lot, pray a lot and ask a lot for upliftment... but not for wisdom.

– Clifford VillalonRate it:

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.

– Christopher McCandlessRate it:

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

– Diana, Princess of WalesRate it:

So many people treat you like you're a kid that you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

– Gerard WayRate it:

So many people who desire poverty get it quickly, but those who desire wealth never have it.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

– Gordon William AllportRate it:

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

– Lauren OliverRate it:

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