Age Quote by Walter Lippmann

“At the beginning of human history, man lost some of the basic animal instincts in which an animal's behavior is embedded and by which…

— Viktor Emil Frankl

We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created that progressively…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in…

— Henri Rousseau

“It is therefore no wonder that modern thought, to the extent that it reduces man from a spiritual to a purely biological entity, elevates…

— Sanford Schwartz

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and…

— George Amos Dorsey

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is…

— Charlie Chaplin

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand…

— H. G. Wells

Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has…

— Fred Edwords

All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult…

— Ernest Hemingway

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in…

— Dorothea Dix