Nature of man Quotes · Page 306

Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people…

— Kurt Sutter

“Because that DNA is the whole reason we exist, still preserved long after most of humanity ascended into super-intelligent human-robot hybrids. Humans…

— Samuel Peralta

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the…

— Nikola Tesla

The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as 'bodies' to be used.…

— Michael Gurian

To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it…

— Thomas Aquinas

“The human heart commits its greatest treachery by healing. It commits its greatest treachery by surviving the love that was supposed to…

— Steve Erickson

As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will…

— Rene Dubos

“Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the…

— Frédéric Bastiat

Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me. It's the "Braveheart" moment, the stuff Joseph Campbell…

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

“The way individuals live together. The truth of each individual is only the truth of his own narrow perspective. The entirety of…

— Jakob Wassermann

In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone. We all float…

— David R. Hawkins

Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond…

— Jan Struther

Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its…

— Jeremy Rifkin

“Naturally, the plague of humanity named confidence (or pride to some), which symptoms often render each person to fiercely believe himself to…

— Bruce Crown

A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make…

— Mohsin Hamid

“I will not try to describe the beauty of life in a Swarm ‒ their zero-gravity globe cities and comet farms and…

— Dan Simmons

Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The deepest need of humans is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God. We have mistaken…

— Thomas Raymond Kelly

There is knowledge of God and the spiritual nature of man, as well as other types of reality..., that are not reducible…

— Dallas Willard

The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics…

— Albert Schweitzer

We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of…

— John Pilger

In Africa there is a concept known as 'ubuntu' - the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of…

— Nelson Mandela

“I came with horror to the conclusion that, if anything could dissipate my love to humanity, it would be ingratitude. In short,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every time we have come to the end of a conflict, somehow we have persuaded ourselves that the nature of mankind and…

— Robert M. Gates

“Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to…

— Marie Curie

“Insight 1: Human decision making serves evolutionary goals. The traditional way of thinking about human behavior is based almost completely on a…

— Anonymous

One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest…

— Konrad Lorenz

“15. “Master Filippus believes that three disciplines define us as humans,” Miri said while they walked to the peat pits. “History, Philosophy,…

— Shannon Hale

“Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for…

— Wendell Berry

All down the ages we see how blood has stained the surface of the earth; but now a ray of greater light…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the…

— Tony Evans

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet…

— Matthew Arnold

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer…

— Shirley Chisholm

In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

“The unregenerate human heart is, perhaps,the most inconsistent thing in all nature; and in nothing is it more capricious than in the…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself…

— Anonymous

“Human, you are a machine, an organism, an animal, a primate, an artist, an athlete, a thinker, a sponge, a spirit, a…

— Laren Grey Umphlett

“Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness…

— Victor Hugo

“Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge - Are boundless. Three things are needed…

— Suzy Kassem