Quotes of: Human-affairs Keyword

Stupid is a great force in human affairs.

P. J. O'Rourke

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Allen

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Iris Murdoch

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Noam Chomsky

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Desiderius Erasmus

Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. As far as I'm concerned, there's no better love affair.

Gloria Gaynor

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.

Max Born

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Terry Eagleton

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a patholo...

Marianne Williamson

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

Terence

Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.

Abdolkarim Soroush

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

The End of Christendom

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Ship of Destiny

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

Boris Yeltsin

We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyp...

Pope Theodoros II

We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After all, our opponents are human. The proper use of an ad hominem argument, however, still requires evidence to back it up...

Theodore Dalrymple

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

Maurice Strong

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Matt Blunt