In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems. — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail. — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
By celebrating death, even of someone as evil as bin Laden, we let our worst impulses trump what Abraham Lincoln called the… — Jonathan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Our better angels get clouded and we're more selfish than we should be, more anxious or neurotic or desperate or self-sabotaging. Crueler,… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
“Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
“all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Viking, Nueva York, 2011; posiciones 3279-3282 (Kindle).” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though involvement in music and the arts can't cure all the ills of society, I do believe that the inspiration they provide… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
“Only I was capable of saving her now, and that, as far as anyone could argue, may have made me worse than… — Jared S. Anderson Copy Share Image
People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most… — Mary Alice Copy Share Image
To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit. To find that answer, we need only look within… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds… — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
I think it's likely that the civilizing effect of literature has done most of the work, and still continues to do. Look… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Only a visionary leadership that can motivate "the better angels of our nature," as Lincoln said, and activate possibilities for a freer,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Moral elevation" describes the feeling of being uplifted by an act of uncommon goodness. Elevation brings out what Abraham Lincoln called "the… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Humans are not innately good (just as they are not innately evil), but they come equipped with motives that can orient them… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Pelosi abuses her power in ways that once were unthinkable. Her speakership has been the antithesis of Lincoln's entreaty to 'the better… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
We need bold leadership to bring America back to its first principles of diversity inclusion and opportunity for everyone in every ZIP… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
The arrogance of liberal progressives is that they're just a lot smarter and better angels than the Stalins and the Chavezes and… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
