Nature of man Quotes · Page 167

Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

— Andrew Keen

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

— Rose Macaulay

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

— Karl Popper

The human thinks he controls something but actually he is under control.

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!”

— Abhijit Naskar

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

— John Steinbeck

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

— Abraham Lincoln

Oh, the humanity… It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.

— J.R. Ward

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men…

— H. L. Mencken

In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and…

— Thomas Jefferson

We all think that an exception is going to be made in our case and were going to live forever. Being a…

— Ken Burns

We can bolster human spirits, clothe cold bodies, feed hungry people, comfort grieving hearts, and lift to new heights precious souls.

— Thomas S. Monson

It seems to me that one of the most basic human experiences, one that is genuinely universal and unites-or, more precisely, could…

— Vaclav Havel

“Mankind is perpetually the victim of a pointless and futile martydom, fretting life away in fruitless worries though failure to realise what…

— Seneca

“Humans have been doin’ awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity’s not as great as you make it out to be.…

— Michael Monroe

I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When all humanity works for humanity, when the life-business of men and women becomes one united partnership in all matters which concern…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending…

— Lesslie Newbigin

We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and…

— Paul Watson

Air, food, shelter, clothing and water are the means of life. Yet, next to the love of God and others, it is…

— John Lars Zwerenz

“But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to…

— Martin Luther King Jr

The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is…

— Markesa Yeager

The Universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically-related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time...…

— Thomas Berry

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved…

— Albert Einstein

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

— Yasunari Kawabata

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems

— Douglas Engelbart

“Violence or Peace...it's up to humanity to pick the road it wants to walk down. The choice is completely ours!”

— Timothy Pina

“If this is what it's like to be human, he thought, no wonder the world is so fucked up.”

— Daryl Gregory

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

— Anonymous

The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.

— Sivananda

“The truly alive soul is tremblingly alive to the feelings of humanity”

— Charlotte Temple

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.

— Cassia Leo

“There is more scholarly work on the life-habits of the dung fly than on existential risks [to humanity].”

— Nick Bostrom

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

— Trip Hawkins

“Your humanity is inside your heart, your divinity is inside your soul.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Manu is the father of mankind, and therefore from manu comes the word man, or, in Sanskrit, manuṣya.”

— Anonymous

“Improving the human condition takes little effort; destroying it takes maximum force.”

— T.F. Hodge

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

— Henry Winkler