„Each of us has been made “a little lower than the angels.” What an incomprehensible compliment! But it’s not only a compliment; it’s also a responsibility, for our special status equalizes us with other people in the eyes of God. The Lord has exalted not only me or some special group; God has exalted everyone. It’s the people of Burkina Faso and Niger and Guyana and Haiti. It’s people who never learned to read and write or who live on fifty cents a day. All human beings have been made a little lower than the angels, and we have a responsibility to treat them accordingly.“

— Jimmy Carter

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„Most people in reasoning, dear Phaedrus, use notions that not only are "ready-made," but have actually been made by nobody. No one is responsible for them, and so they serve everyone badly.“
— Paul Valéry
„It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.“
— Stephen King
„Art has been verified. God is the Lord, of angels, and of men — and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
„The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for — its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.“
— Florence Nightingale
„I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.“
— Tupac Shakur
„We are a nation that has a government — not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people.“
— Ronald Reagan