Explore Quotes by Marya Mannes

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

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.

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.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

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

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.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.

Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.