If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“a better reading of history must bring home the truth that the basic factor in human affairs is not politics, but race.” — T. Lothrop Stoddard Copy Share Image
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs -… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image