Marya Mannes - Human Quotes

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The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

Marya Mannes

Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.

Marya Mannes

The car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making.

Marya Mannes

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

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Flirtation... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.

Marya Mannes

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.

Marya Mannes

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

Marya Mannes