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Humans Quotes - Page 11

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4277, e-artnow

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.150

Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.

William Watson Purkey, David B. Strahan (2002). “Inviting Positive Classroom Discipline”, p.11, National Middle School Association

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

"Materialism and Empirio-criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy (1908)". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Chapter Five: "The Recent Revolution in Natural Science and Philosophical Idealism". Collected Works, Volume 14, www.marxists.org.

A human being can never be broken

"The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.131, New Directions Publishing