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Human Quotes by Chris Hedges
- The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.
- There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.
- The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of religion, science or…
- Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.
- It's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of governance can no…
- The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in…
- Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of…
- Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche