Tag Archives: Mankind

The History That I’m Still Living

Posted on May 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The History That I’m Still Livingby Michael DoyleWhen the winds of change blew throughThe march of history became more trueThere really wasn’t much to sayBy those who outgrew their shackles of yesterdayThe Wild West became the Wild EastAs crime and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beast, Blind, Brave, Cages, Capitalist, Causes of Freedom, Cracked ideals, Crime and Corruption, Determined, Died For, Dignity, Dreams, Evidence, Fabians, False Alibis, Few, Fools, Forefathers, Freedom and Liberty, Good fight, History, Ignore, Invade, Liberty, Lies, Living, Mankind, March of History, Memories, Persist, Poetry and Poems, Resist, Restored Empire, Right and True, Say, Self-Chosen Slavery, Shackles, Socialists, Stubborn Facts, Success, Throw Away, True, Tyranny, Verdict, Watch, West, Wild East, Winds of Change, Yesterday | Leave a comment

First Principles: Without Justice Being Freely, Fully, and Impartially Administered, Neither Our Persons, Nor Our Rights, Nor Our Property, Can Be Protected

Posted on May 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected.” – Joseph Story (1833)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Administer, Certain Laws, Certain Principles, Fee, First Principles, Full, Impartial, Independendnce, Joseph Story, Justice, Mankind, Persons, Property, Protected, Remedies, Rights, Society, State of Savage and Barbarous, Value, Violate | Leave a comment

The Wonderous Sea’s Coral Reef

Posted on May 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Wonderous Sea’s Coral Reefby Michael DoyleThere’s a moving declaration of loveDedicated to the beauty of Mother OceanIt is as pristine as the heavens aboveThis water planet deserves our devotionJacques Cousteau was like a father to us allSharing underwater images … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Any Direction, Beauty, Citizens, Clams, Clownfish and Sea Anemone, Colonial Animals, Coral Reef, Cost, Course Correction, Crown of Thorns, Declaration of Love, Devotion, Dignity, Divers, Dolphin, Dream, Drift, Dust, Ecological Balance, Endanger, Evidence, Fate, Fiji, Filter, Form, Function, Heart, Heavens Above, Human Cities, Humble, Jacques Cousteau, Keeper of Balance, Life, Limestone, Lost, Lungs and Hearts, Majesty, Mankind, Meaning, Moments of Play, Mother Ocean, Natural Alliance, Nature's Trust, Nudibranchs and Flatworms, Oasis, Pay, Plankton, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Pristine, Pulsations of Life, Scraps, Sea, Selfish Pleasure, Skeletons, Slow, Strategies, Structural Firmament, Struggle, Survival, Swim, Symbiotic Partners, Triton's Horn, Tropics, Underwater Images, Vain Price, Variable, Wander, Water Planet, Worms and Mollusks, Wounded Reef | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Virtues of Men Are of More Consequence To Society Than Their Abilities

Posted on May 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.” – Noah Webster (1788)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Abilities, Assiduity, Consequence, Cultitvate, First Principles, Head, Heart, Mankind, Noah Webster, Reason, Society, Virtues | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Live In the World Rather As A Spectator of Mankind Than As One of the Species

Posted on May 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.” –Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1 May 1672-1719)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Joseph Addison, Live, Mankind, One, Species, Spectator, Thought For the Day, World | Leave a comment

As If From Nowhere

Posted on April 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

As If From Nowhereby Michael DoyleHorrific images arise as if from nowhereThe sort of created crucifixion of unspoken fearHounded by the talons of the furiesThat creep up very slowly and kill with a hurryBringing back the Temple of Apollo, At … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abandonment, As If, Athena, Avenged, Avenger, Banish, Beauty, Body and Mind, Brand, Chest, Child, Circumstances, Conspire, Create, Creation, Creep, Crime, Crucifixion, Delphi, Dissonant, Divine, Doubt, Dread, Empire, Evil, Explanation, Exploitation, Fataility, Fatality, Free Agency, Gobsmacking, Gods, Heart of Darkness, Horrific Images, Horror, Humanity, Hurry, Iconic Moment, Importance, Impotence, Incoherence, Love, Man's, Mankind, Moments, Monsters, Morality, Murder, Narcissus, Nostoro, Nowhere, Parents, Pervasive, Plain View, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Rebellion, Refines, Serial Killer, Shattered Lullabies, Shriek, Sublime, Symphony, Synchroniciites, Tactile, Taken For Granted, Tales, Talons, Temple of Apollo, Test, The Furies, Thought, Torment, Triumph, Undoable, Unspoken Fear, Unwanted, Witches' Brew, Wounded Imagination, Wrong Doing, Zeus | Leave a comment

First Principles: When Men Are Employ’d They Are Best Contented

Posted on April 21, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“When Men are employ’d they are best contented. For on the Days they work’d they were good-natur’d and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Bread, Cheerful, Conscousness, Content, Days, Employed, Evenings, Fault, First Principles, Good Nature, Idle Days, Ill-Humor, Mankind, Mutinous, Pork, Quarrelsome, Worked | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Hail To the Man Who Went Through Life Always Helping Others, Knowing No Fear, and To Whom Aggressiveness and Resentment Are Alien

Posted on March 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien.” – Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 Mar 1879-1955)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Aggressive, Albert Einstein, Alien, Hail, Helping Others, Life, Mankind, No Fear, Resentment, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Liberty of Man To Search For Truth Ought Not To Be Fettered, No Matter What Orthodoxies He May Challenge

Posted on March 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Belief, Challenge, Civilization, Error, Felix Frankfurter, Fettered, History, Liberty, Mankind, Measure, Official Truth, Orthodoxies, Other Truths, Search, Thought For the Day, Truth, Yield | Leave a comment

First Principles: How Prone All Human Institutions Have Been To Decay;…Impelled As It Were By An Irresistable Fate of Despotism

Posted on March 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Ages, All Human Insituttions, Check, Countries, Decay, Despotism, Difficult, Dissolve, Fate, First Pricniples, Governments, Impelled, Irresistable, James Monroe, Mankind, Prone, Rights and Privileges | Leave a comment