Quotes:The ruin of the
human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
View quotes by Edward DahlbergWhat should move us to action is
human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable
View quotes by Dominique De MenilThis horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of
human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
View quotes by Malcolm MuggeridgeA 1990 Gallup poll found that 77% of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of
human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.
View quotes by Robert CaseyI find it strange the way
human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity. People want someone to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy them because it makes them feel insecure.
View quotes by Danielle DaxThere are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of
human attention.
View quotes by James BaldwinHuman nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
View quotes by MenciusAt present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the
human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.
View quotes by George Bernard ShawWe are grateful to him for the tireless and difficult work he carried out unstintingly against all forms of totalitarianism, violence, oppression and moral degradation, all in the name of the values of the Catholic Church, which are the supreme values of
human dignity and solidarity. [on Pope John Paul II]
View quotes by Silvio BerlusconiWe are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of
human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
View quotes by Ayn RandEvery citizen is king under a citizen king [ignoring that because of
human nature being what it is, in practice that would never be true]
View quotes by Charles FavartLife is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a
human conception for man's own advantage.
View quotes by Sri AurobindoCivilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single
human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.
View quotes by Sigmund FreudI believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of
human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals and terrorists to trump the rights of the people of Britain to live in security and peace
View quotes by David CameronWe already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening
human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.
View quotes by George WaldI think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about
human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
View quotes by Stephen HawkingThe central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly
human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
View quotes by Eric HofferSleep is perverse as
human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.
View quotes by Ogden NashThe mind is the greatest of all
human forces. Control the mind and you control the body.
View quotes by Griffin JayThe natural flights of the
human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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