Short quotations about, human - Page 5

Howard Zinn

Was all this bloodshed and deceit -…

15 Feb , 2011  

Was all this bloodshed and deceit – from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans – a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made – as it was […]

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Richard Feynman

We are at the very beginning of tim…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. Great short quote and […]

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We are armed with language adequate…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry David Thoreau , US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

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We are here and it is now. Further …

15 Feb , 2011  

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. Great short quote and quotation by: H. L. Mencken , US editor (1880 – 1956)

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We are here and it is now. Further …

15 Feb , 2011  

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. Great short quote and quotation by: H. L. Mencken , US editor (1880 – 1956)

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Josephine Hart, "Sin"

We are here to add to the sum of hu…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because […]

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We are not human beings on a spirit…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. Great short quote and quotation by: Stephen Covey ,

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We are obliged to respect, defend a…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race. Great short quote and quotation by: Cicero , Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC – 43 BC)

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Gerald Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming"

We have come through a strange cycl…

15 Feb , 2011  

We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, […]

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William Ralph Inge

We have enslaved the rest of the an…

15 Feb , 2011  

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. Great short quote and quotation by: William Ralph Inge , English author & Anglican prelate […]

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John Adams

We have no government armed with po…

15 Feb , 2011  

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any […]

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We have rudiments of reverence for …

15 Feb , 2011  

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. Great short quote and quotation by: Eric Hoffer , (1902 – 1983)

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