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Human Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
- History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the…
- History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.
- No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing…
- The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.
- The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with…
- We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant,…
- It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses…
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- 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