Better Angels Of Our Nature Quotes

the better angels of our nature

— Abraham Lincoln

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

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

— Matt Damon

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

— Jim Leach

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

— John Cho

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

— Jonathan Zimmerman

“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

“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

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

— Mary Alice

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

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

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

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

— Stephen Mansfield

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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Cornel West

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

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Steven Pinker