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Humans Quotes by James Madison
- It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a…
- It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just…
- There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,…
- It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will…
- This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both…
- We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states] would be introduced…
- No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within…
- But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the…
- All power in human hands is liable to be abused.
- The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were…
- What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2d. it is…
- The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were…
- The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy…
- The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such…
- Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has…
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