Quotes 1141 till 1160 of 1426.
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The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
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The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.
Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993) -
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
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The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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There 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.
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There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
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There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
The Lost World (2015) 72 -
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
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