117 Quotes by Marya Mannes

Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.