#human

The human race is governed by its imagination. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#human #human race #imagination #race

I’m a survivor. And like the moon, I have a feeling it would take a truly spectacular event to keep me from taking my place in the scheme of things, waxing, waning, and eclipsing notwithstanding. ↗

— Janet Rebhan

#eclipse-of-the-moon #eclipse-quote #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life

Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image ↗

— Dean Koontz

#human-nature #nature

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#great #humanist #present #seen #slump

Compassion is the chief law of human existence. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#humanity #law

I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves. ↗

— Tess Gerritsen

#humanity #evil

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#conflicts #device #eliminate #entire #found

Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#humans #life #sensibility #death

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#among #architectural #describe #details #enough

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#barbarous #cruel #i #inhuman #only