Nature of man Quotes · Page 190

“Three things are needed For humanity to co-exist: Truth, peace and basic needs. Everything else - Is irrelevant.”

— Suzy Kassem

The way of the warrior is based on humanity, love and sincerity

— Morihei Ueshiba

I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.

— Flash Rosenberg

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

— Herbert Read

Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

— Anonymous

I think that as people and as humans, our social pattern is to always run away from problems... as humans in general.

— Cristian Machado

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the…

— Victor J. Stenger

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries…

— Erich Fromm

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a…

— Mark Twain

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity…

— Mira Nair

“Don’t underrate ordinary human decency,” Josh said quietly. “There’s more of heaven in a guy who hands a cold soda to a…

— John Barnes

“Human progress and human cultures are not founded by the multitude, they are the works of personal genius and personal efficiency”

— Adolph Hitler

“It’s a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and to find at the end that…

— Anonymous

To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human…

— Frederick Franck

“Darwin’s familiarity with human-caused extinction is also clear from On the Origin of Species. In one of the many passages in which…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Hare and Tomasello think that the social behavior of chimps is constrained by their temperament, and the human temperament is necessary for…

— Michael S. Gazzaniga

“... humans are simply zombie hosts obediently disseminating their seeds, tubers, sparks, and gasses around the globe. In the end, the geologic…

— John Vaillant

“What is the essence of human sexuality and how did it get to be that way? In the following pages, we’ll explain…

— Christopher Ryan

“Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the…

— Brad Watson

Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I…

— Allan McLeod Cormack

If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But…

— Frans de Waal

“Today’s human activity isn’t exterminating mammoths through centuries of overhunting. Some humans are currently killing everything, from megafauna to microbiota, at speeds…

— Raj Patel

“Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.

— Deepak Chopra

The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup.

— Kip Thorne

As humans, our instinct is to be free. And any sort of restrictions don't help.

— Kirti Kulhari

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

— Richard K. Morgan

Equality is a disorganizing concept in so far as human relations mean order.

— Richard Weaver

Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the…

— John Kennedy Toole

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“That God only whom Christ reveals to the humble seeker, can ever satisfy human soul.”

— George MacDonald

Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.

— Jim Fowler

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

— William James

I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.

— Bill Mollison

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

— David LaChapelle

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

— Warren Buffett

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

— Louis MacNeice

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

— Pope John Paul II