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1 " Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often deflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice. "

― Dan Simmons , The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

2 " God Child is a free and inspirational translation of Adam. Adam means 'human', not 'man'. The Hebrew for 'man' is 'aish'. In English man can mean both man and human, which may have caused the confusion in the first place. If Adam isn’t the first male Homo sapiens, who or what is he? "

― Stefan Emunds , Genesis

3 " And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblance is not striking; but I think I could place them in such a view. You will allow that in both man has the advantage of choice, woman only the power of refusal; that in both it is an engagement between man and woman, formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into, they belong exclusively to each other till the moment of its dissolution; that it is their duty each to endeavor to give the other no cause for wishing that he or she had bestowed themselves elsewhere, and their best interest to keep their own imaginations from wandering towards the perfections of their neighbors, or fancying that they should have been better off with any one else. "

― Jane Austen , Northanger Abbey

4 " —I won't go about to argue the point with you,—'tis so,—and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as can be, " That both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position. "

5 " Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held. "

― Matthew Scully , Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

6 " The battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where every creature lives on the death of another. A realization of the inevitable guilt of life may so sicken the heart, that like Hamlet, or like Arjuna, one may refuse to go on with it. On the other hand, like most of the rest of us, one may invent a false finally unjustified image of oneself as an exceptional phenomenon in the world--not guilty as others are, but justified in one's inevitable sinning, because one represents the good. Such self-righteousness leads to a misunderstanding, not only of oneself, but of the nature of both Man and the Cosmos. The goal of the myth is to dispel the need for such life-ignorance by affecting a reconciliation of the individual consciousness with the universal will, and this is affected through a realization of the true relationship of the passing phenomena of time to the imperishable life that lives and dies in all. "

― Joseph Campbell , The Hero With a Thousand Faces

7 " The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. "

8 " It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. "