„The duty we owe to our gardens is to so use the plants that they shall form beautiful pictures; and that, while delighting our eyes.“
Colour in the Garden
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— Bill Mollison Australian permaculturist 1928 - 2016
Quelle: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 1.3

— Albert Pike, buch Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Quelle: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. XIX : Grand Pontiff, p. 312
Kontext: The true Mason labors for the benefit of those that are to come after him, and for the advancement and improvement of his race. That is a poor ambition which contents itself within the limits of a single life. All men who deserve to live, desire to survive their funerals, and to live afterward in the good that they have done mankind, rather than in the fading characters written in men's memories. Most men desire to leave some work behind them that may outlast their own day and brief generation. That is an instinctive impulse, given by God, and often found in the rudest human heart; the surest proof of the soul's immortality, and of the fundamental difference between man and the wisest brutes. To plant the trees that, after we are dead, shall shelter our children, is as natural as to love the shade of those our fathers planted.

„We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.“
— George Mason American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention 1725 - 1792
Letter to a member of the Brent family (6 December 1770)

„Beauty! Terrible Beauty!
A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!“
— Homér, Ilias
Quelle: The Iliad

— John Winthrop Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, author of "City upon a Hill" 1588 - 1649
A Model of Christian Charity, a sermon delivered onboard the Arbella (1630)

— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919
1910s, Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)
Kontext: We cannot afford to continue to use hundreds of thousands of immigrants merely as industrial assets while they remain social outcasts and menaces any more than fifty years ago we could afford to keep the black man merely as an industrial asset and not as a human being. We cannot afford to build a big industrial plant and herd men and women about it without care for their welfare. We cannot afford to permit squalid overcrowding or the kind of living system which makes impossible the decencies and necessities of life. We cannot afford the low wage rates and the merely seasonal industries which mean the sacrifice of both individual and family life and morals to the industrial machinery. We cannot afford to leave American mines, munitions plants, and general resources in the hands of alien workmen, alien to America and even likely to be made hostile to America by machinations such as have recently been provided in the case of the two foreign embassies in Washington. We cannot afford to run the risk of having in time of war men working on our railways or working in our munition plants who would in the name of duty to their own foreign countries bring destruction to us. Recent events have shown us that incitements to sabotage and strikes are in the view of at least two of the great foreign powers of Europe within their definition of neutral practices. What would be done to us in the name of war if these things are done to us in the name of neutrality?

— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues French writer, a moralist 1715 - 1747
Quelle: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 175.

— Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman 1533 - 1592

— Albert Pike, buch Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Quelle: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. XIX : Grand Pontiff, p. 316
Kontext: If not for slander and persecution, the Mason who would benefit his race must look for apathy and cold indifference in those whose good he seeks, in those who ought to seek the good of others. Except when the sluggish depths of the Human Mind are hroken up and tossed as with a storm, when at the appointed time a great Reformer comes, and a new Faith springs up and grows with supernatural energy, the progress of Truth is slower than the growth of oaks; and he who plants need not expect to gather. The Redeemer, at His death, had twelve disciples, and one betrayed and one deserted and denied Him. It is enough for us to know that the fruit will come in its due season. When, or who shall gather it, it does not in the least concern us to know. It is our business to plant the seed. It is God's right to give the fruit to whom He pleases; and if not to us, then is our action by so much the more noble.

— Pío Pico Governor of Alta California 1801 - 1894
Los Angeles Almanac http://www.laalmanac.com/history/hi05s.htm
Mexican-American War

— Max Beckmann German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer 1884 - 1950
Beckmann's lecture 'Drei Briefe an eine Malerin' ('Three letters to a Woman-painter'), New York and Boston, Spring 1948; as cited in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 214
1940s

— Pope Gregory I Pope from 590 to 604 540 - 604
Morals in the Book of Job, 553d, as translated in Cultural Performances in Medieval France (2007), p. 129

— Benjamín Netanyahu Israeli prime minister 1949
Netanyahu speech at the UN General Assembly 1 October 2013 http://www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-netanyahus-2013-speech-to-the-un-general-assembly/.
2010s, 2013

— Fulton J. Sheen Catholic bishop and television presenter 1895 - 1979
Quelle: Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary