Nature of man Quote by Margaret Atwood Download Open image ““How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation”” — Margaret Atwood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nature of man
“You don't invent circumstances, but when they happen they reveal human nature.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We all should share our true passion for others, in order for us to create a harmless envioronment.” — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
“Mankind, I suppose, is designed to run on—to be motivated by—temptation. If progress is a virtue then this is our greatest gift. (For what… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“Doing something for humanity may be fine—for humanity—but rough on the individual!” — Kornbluth Cyril M Copy Share Image
“Love humanity for all its pleasures and faults. Remember to follow the instructions from above and your day will be blessed” — J. Anson Brandes Copy Share Image
“We're the only species that invents all of this stuff to make our lives easier-like a car so that we don't need to walk-then… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
“No one, it appears, took up his offer to commercialize his invention; like other inventions of his, it worked well for him, but mere… — Morton N. Cohen Copy Share Image
“We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.” — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!” — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Every significant invention must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We invent ourselves out of ingredients we didn't choose, by a process we can't control.” — Lew Welch Copy Share Image
“There is a special kind of moral support that a man craves from his peers. If he doesn’t get it, a man has two… — Tom Fahy Copy Share Image
“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Mary: Some call this "Eve's curse," but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the… — margaret atwood Copy Share Image
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Every time the women appear, Snowman is astonished all over again. They're every known colour from the deepest black to whitest white, they're various… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.” — Richard Rohr 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
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee 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
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield 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
Every human creates his own problems. Problems are ones private property and we shouldnt meddle into them self-initiatively. — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image