To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten. Charles Lindbergh More Quotes by Charles Lindbergh More Quotes From Charles Lindbergh Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved. Charles Lindbergh earthbraintime Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. Charles Lindbergh landscapedistancelife-is-like Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people. Charles Lindbergh springwarpeace We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence...Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur. It is too bad because a few Jews of the right type are, I believe, an asset to any country. Charles Lindbergh populationbelievecountry Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. Charles Lindbergh flyingspaceuse I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within. Charles Lindbergh infinityknowswonder Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians. Charles Lindbergh moralchristianscience We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow. Charles Lindbergh weaponstodayscience We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them here in America, and the farther we get into this war the farther we get away from democracy and freedom. Where is it leading us to, and when will it end? The war might stop this winter, but that is improbable. It may go on for fifty years or more. That also is improbable. The elements are too conflicting and confused to form any accurate judgment of its length. There may be a series of wars, one after another, going on indefinitely. Charles Lindbergh confusedwinterwar It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base. Charles Lindbergh easierhonestyends Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. Charles Lindbergh timelifepast Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much myself. Did I not prefer the brown skin that came with exposure to the sun? Charles Lindbergh whitejusticethinking I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time. Charles Lindbergh wineyearsart God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. Charles Lindbergh earth-lifesimplemen What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we Charles Lindbergh sweetlifedeath Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? Charles Lindbergh left-handcouragehands How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life? Charles Lindbergh wallwindmen Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. Charles Lindbergh realinspirationallying Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control. Charles Lindbergh valuesindividualcircumstances I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. Charles Lindbergh destroyingexpectedcivilization
