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Humans Quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee
- The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough…
- It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to…
- Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed…
- Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs…
- We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But…
- The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in…
- The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one…
- As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We…
- The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against…
More Humans Quotes
- 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