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Human Quotes by Joan D. Chittister
- Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.
- Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is…
- It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and…
- A seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a sage appeared bearing…
- For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really often mean to…
- In community we work out our connectedness to God, to one another and to ourselves...In human relationships I learn that theory is no substitute for…
- In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the particular personality and…
- Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn to…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong