Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
