Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1482.
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The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.
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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices - against half the human race - that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
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The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
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The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) VII, 20, 2-4 -
The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.
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