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
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
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
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
If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems. — Matt Damon 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
“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
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
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
Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts. — Jim Leach 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
“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
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
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
“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
“Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Viking, Nueva York, 2011; posiciones 3279-3282 (Kindle).” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
