637 quotes found
“Human being is the only creature I found ho does everything he is not suppose to do.”
“People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.”
“Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.”
“The human self also has a nature, limits as well as potentials. If you seek vocation without understanding the material you are working with, what you build with your life will be ungainly and may ...”
“...He had few illusions, for here are some of the things that life had taught him: "Men hate those whom they have injured; men love those whom they have benefited; men naturally avoid their benefac...”
“To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.”
“While the world wasn't build for the humans, we were built for the world”
“We have to combine, certainly, but if we combine to fight on the idea of each man making more money for himself, then we end by fighting one another. And that's the trouble now... human dealings ar...”
“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tende...”
“Emotional position is part of it, but as an individual you are not your emotions, neither are you your intellect. These are things that you have . They're not things that you are . Therefore you ha...”
“402Emotional position is part of it, but as an individual you are not your emotions, neither are you your intellect. These are things that you have . They're not things that you are . Therefore you...”
“... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.”
“On Kwajalein, Louie and Phil leared a dark truth known to the doomed in Hitler's death camps, the slaves of the American South, and a hundred other generations of betrayed people. Dignity is as ess...”
“Just because we are capable of art didn't what lay in front of him could be dismissed as aberration, that we could take what we admired and fence that off as human, dismissing the rest as monstrous...”
“Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless.”
“Some things a girl has in her to say no to and some things cut her down before she knows shes gone. Sure, some twiggy, thorny snap in her says: no, this is awry, this is a bent thing, in that place...”
“You can't change laws without first changing human nature... You can't change human nature without first changing the law.”
“He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. He felt safe now.”
“Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.”
“When you hate someone it means you like it.”