Nature of man Quotes · Page 121

“His advent in human nature was not by the will of a man, but by the will of God.”

— The Church Fathers

In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

— Aldous Huxley

“Humans are venerable because they are capable of getting hurt.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“True humanity is always connected to glory, and true glory can only be found in the One who is glory, the Lord.”

— Paul David Tripp

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

— Edward Abbey

“It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is a…

— Shirley Chisholm

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

— Gore Vidal

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

— M. H. Abrams

The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us…

— Gene Roddenberry

Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit.…

— Malcolm X

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny…

— Rosa Luxemburg

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds…

— Paul Taylor

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

— Henry Ford

“You get the picture. The marvelous thing about the human ego is that each one is slightly different. Deep inside you, there’s…

— Stanley Bing

O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever…

— Matthew Arnold

Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or…

— Jerome Kagan

I began studying human emotions more than twenty years ago. At that time, almost every scientist working in this area was studying…

— Barbara Fredrickson

Eventually, humans invented agriculture, which could be understood as a way of turning the natural world into a tool for our use.…

— Annalee Newitz

Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms…

— Ban Ki-moon

The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the…

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

“We fail to take responsibility, to act productively in the interest of ourselves and others. And in our attempts at a better…

— Hanzi Freinacht

No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness…

— Dalai Lama

Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual…

— Mikhail Bakunin

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

— Eckhart Tolle

“We birth humans and batter them into human-shaped pulp; empty nothingness housed by crumbling shell and bone.”

— S.K. Falls

“The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses who pull;”

— Lord Byron

“Humans seem to have an innate drive to master other creatures.”

— Paul Greenberg

Let us dream a day when all the living beings including human are equally respected by each other.

— Chandrababu VS

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Mankind made up a version of reality we could all live in.”

— Christopher Hawke

“Thus what will distinguish the human quality not the result but the manner”

— Giharu Si Perempuan Gunung

Love is a universal thing that everyone understands. Love, like death, is the only thing that binds humanity.

— Sharon Needles

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

— Blaise Pascal

I'd like my man to be very simple yet highly ambitious, one who chooses to live with real integrity and humanity.

— Sherlyn Chopra

I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.

— Niels Arden Oplev

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

— George Monbiot

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

— Paul Erdos