“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Humanity
Mark Twain on Humanity
Nancy Astor on Change
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything – or nothing.” Continue reading
Benjamin Franklin on Politics
“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.” Continue reading
Robertson Davies on Society
“There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.” Continue reading
Robert E. Lee on War
“It is well that war is so terrible – otherwise we would grow too fond of it.” Continue reading
Arthur Schopenhauer Cynical Quote
“Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.” Continue reading
Stephen Jay Gould on Science
“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.” Continue reading
Cicero on Humanity and Community
“We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.” Continue reading
Antoine De Saint-Exupery on Language
“Language is the source of misunderstandings.” Continue reading
John Kenneth Galbraith on Politics
“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.” Continue reading
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