Best Human Affairs Sayings

106 Human Affairs quotes by 89 unique authors

However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human… — Eric Hoffer
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life,… — David Hume
No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most… — Ross Douthat
Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness… — Albert Einstein
There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs. — William H. Hastie
Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision. — Peter Senge
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot:… — Seneca the Younger
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. — Frank B. Kellogg
It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species… — Desmond Morris
In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through conversation, debate and… — Nelson Mandela
Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man hacking… — Paul Rusesabagina
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. — Margaret MacMillan
The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put an end to… — Hannah
In human affairs, we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged, we keep in order, what has gone amiss we improve or change,… — Martin Luther
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be… — Benjamin Franklin
Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs. — Frederick Seitz
Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever… — John Calvin
Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia… — L. Ron Hubbard
In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final… — Eric Hoffer
Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed. — Aulus Persius Flaccus
In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from. — Eric Hoffer
To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man… — Eric Hoffer
I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart. — Robert Fulghum
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more… — Baruch Spinoza
To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human… — George Steiner

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