Better Angels Quotes

the better angels of our nature

— Abraham Lincoln

He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.

— Andrew Cuomo

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

— Robert Breault

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

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

— Jim Leach

If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.

— Matt Damon

Anyone else reading The Better Angels of Our Nature? Butter, this book.

— John Cho

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

— Charles Dickens

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

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

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

“Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Viking, Nueva York, 2011; posiciones 3279-3282 (Kindle).”

— Anonymous

“all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers…

— Rick Perlstein

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds…

— Abraham Lincoln

Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of…

— Rick Perlstein

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

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

We need bold leadership to bring America back to its first principles of diversity inclusion and opportunity for everyone in every ZIP…

— Tom Perez

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

“Humans are not innately good (just as they are not innately evil), but they come equipped with motives that can orient them…

— Steven Pinker

“Moral elevation" describes the feeling of being uplifted by an act of uncommon goodness. Elevation brings out what Abraham Lincoln called "the…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“Only a visionary leadership that can motivate "the better angels of our nature," as Lincoln said, and activate possibilities for a freer,…

— Cornel West

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

By celebrating death, even of someone as evil as bin Laden, we let our worst impulses trump what Abraham Lincoln called the…

— Jonathan Zimmerman

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds…

— Stephen Mansfield

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

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

People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most…

— Mary Alice