Humans Quote by Dag Hammarskjöld Download Open image ““Apes. The moon woke them-- round the world's navel revolved prayer wheels of steps.”” — Dag Hammarskjöld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans
“From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. It wasn't a miracle, we just decided to go.” — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
“They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“We walked on the moon. We made footprints somewhere no one else had ever made footprints, and unless someone comes and rubs them out,… — Frank Cottrell Boyce Copy Share Image
“I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard” — Alfred Döblin Copy Share Image
“For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.” — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“My nation, your nation, my religion, your religion, my culture, your culture, will be the end of us apes - outwardly fancy, inwardly filthy,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversized braincase and the opposable thumb—this animal barely up from the apes—will endure, will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets—to the stars and beyond—carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage, and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share
“Would you dare to walk with the beast on the dark side of the moon?” — Demetri Daskova Copy Share Image
“We prayed the moon would unstopper long enough to suck us through to the other side so we could see how dull the stars… — Lindsay Hunter Copy Share Image
“Didst thou give me this inescapable loneliness so that it would be easier for me to give thee all?” — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all,… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept whatcan be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
