Quotes:Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in
human experience.
View quotes by Johan HuizingaThe essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in
human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
View quotes by James MadisonHe who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only
human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
View quotes by Edmund WilsonWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the
human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
View quotes by Tennessee WilliamsThe
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 ourselves.
View quotes by Arnold ToynbeeThere are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. - Life and
Human Nature
View quotes by Logan Pearsall SmithMusic is the pleasure the
human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
View quotes by Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizThe
Human Rights Act has made it harder to protect our security and it's done little to protect some of our liberties
View quotes by David CameronAll the past is but the beginning of the beginning, all that the
human mind has accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
View quotes by H G WellsIn the general course of
human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
View quotes by Alexander HamiltonSometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another
human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
View quotes by Albert Schweitzer People should realise women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real
human beings.
View quotes by Kate BeckinsaleFor one
human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
View quotes by Rainer Maria RilkeI am confirmed in my division of
human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
View quotes by Julia Ward HoweI'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that
human beings can organize play, the spirit of play.
View quotes by Simon GrayMarriage takes work, but so does living alone. One of the things you have to work at is to have enough
human resources and to plan ahead.
View quotes by Barbara FeldonWhen you realise what life would be like without the freedoms that we in the West take for granted every day, you realise just how miserable half of
human existence has been.
View quotes by Jim GibbonsMaturity is sensitivity to
human suffering and it seems that the more mature
humanity becomes in terms of knowledge and age, the less mature we are in other ways.
View quotes by Julius GordonThe State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of
human sacrifice.
View quotes by Emma GoldmanThe cemetery of the victims of
human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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