Quotes 1381 till 1400 of 1419.
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
O'Flaherty V.C. (1919) -
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.
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A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
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All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
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All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
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Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.
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Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
The Devil's Dictionary -
Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
(1965) -
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active -not more happy -nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
The Devil's Dictionary -
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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