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Best Human Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with…
- I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of…
- The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human…
- It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in…
- The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.
- To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only…
- New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.
- If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies…
- The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
- Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were…
- I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon,…
- I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of…
- The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption…
- On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting,…
- To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for…
- The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
- Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence
- Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear…
- The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human…
- The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in…
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- 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