Human Fellowship

(362 votes)   One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(362 votes)   The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Hermann Hesse
1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet

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(352 votes)   How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.

Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993

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(346 votes)   I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(345 votes)   My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(340 votes)   Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(318 votes)   We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

R. D. Laing
1927-1989, British Psychiatrist

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(316 votes)   Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Emma Goldman
1869-1940, American Anarchist

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(302 votes)   Men are equally similar in nature, few become different when they endure and triumph over the profundity of temptation.

Maynard June Panganiban

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(299 votes)   It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

Anatole France
1844-1924, French Writer

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(296 votes)   There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(296 votes)   What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(267 votes)   There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(264 votes)   The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work.

Kingsley Amis
1922-1995, British Novelist

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(256 votes)   I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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