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Humans Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- ... direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each…
- It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
- You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured…
- If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?
- This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the…
- With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary…
- The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own…
- Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit.
- The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market…
- It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was…
- To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a…
- ... human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions ...
- Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.
- Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear…
- Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions…
- Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.
- I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.
- ... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!
- To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in…
- A human being is all hope and impatience.
- I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having…
- One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority…
- It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
- If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
- Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
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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