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Human Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs…
- A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say,…
- You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of…
- No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way…
- To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
- Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real.…
- The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do…
- The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For…
- The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the…
- The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere…
- Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
- The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to…
- At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To…
- The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
- Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
- The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
- The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent…
- This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that…
- There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
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- 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