Marya Mannes

“The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.”

“The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.”

“If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.”

“It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.”

“The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.”

“In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.”

“In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.”

“For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.”

“It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.”

“For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.”

“In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.”