Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist, Charles Lindbergh More Quotes by Charles Lindbergh More Quotes From Charles Lindbergh The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern. Charles Lindbergh governmentevilpeople The idea of racial inferiority or superiority is foreign to me. I can't feel inferior or superior to another man because of race, or in any way antagonistic to him. I judge by the individual, not by his race, and have always done so. I would rather have one of my children marry into a good family of any race than into a bad family of any other race. Charles Lindbergh racemenchildren All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money. Charles Lindbergh existencesocialjustice I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night. Charles Lindbergh airplanejumpingnight I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves? Charles Lindbergh individualevolveself Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through the sense of sight. When you see without feeling, you are still partly blind; you lack the inner light that brings awareness. Awareness requires the interplay of every faculty, the use of your entire being as an eye. Charles Lindbergh lighteyemean I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind - qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born. Charles Lindbergh menlifebelieve From now on, depressions will be scientifically created. Charles Lindbergh federal-reserve Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials? Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise? Charles Lindbergh lightambitionadventure A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life. Charles Lindbergh qualityessentialslife The readiness to blame a dead pilot for an accident is nauseating, but it has been the tendency ever since I can remember. What pilot has not been in positions where he was in danger and Charles Lindbergh blamepilotsperfect True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his crowded cabin; but as his airship keeps its course he holds communion with those rare spirits that inspire to intrepidity and by their sustaining potency give strength to arm, resource to mind, content to soul. Alone? With what other companions would man fly to whom the choice were given? Charles Lindbergh choicesgivingmen And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space. Charles Lindbergh flyingspaceclouds I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. Charles Lindbergh airplanereallying This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again. Charles Lindbergh aviationflightearth The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science. Charles Lindbergh essencelifelying After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air. Charles Lindbergh lightreadingmen Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods. Charles Lindbergh arrogantrightsmen Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere. Charles Lindbergh advantageaircountry After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars. Charles Lindbergh moleculesstarssky
