Human Problems Quotes - Page 2

• If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Children, War, Patents

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards me?

  Hubert Van Zeller

  Prayer, Thinking, Sorrow

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• In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few basic human problems. It must also be taken into consideration that people are people regardless of who they are or what their backgrounds may be. There are certain deep universal appeals to human interest and to these human nature always responds.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Taken, People, May

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “A Guide to Confident Living”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Analysis, Phrases, Language

  Robert Jay Lifton (1989). “Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "brainwashing" in China”, p.429, UNC Press Books

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• We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.

  Rachel Carson

  Reality, Men, Vanity

  "Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson", edited by Linda Lear, (p. 91), 1999.

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• Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem, it is a medical problem. You kill one person to save another, in the best case scenario. Or to live comfortably, no? It's against the Hippocratic oaths doctors must take.

  Pope Francis

  Doctors, Medical Problems, Abortion

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Change, People, Fundamentals

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• The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational Life, Priorities, Firsts

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• A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Writing, Fiction Stories, Problem

  "The Man Who Lost the Sea".

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• People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Black And White, People, Gutters

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• Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Carpe Diem, Competition, Atmosphere

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• I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead.

  Elton John

  Jesus, Gay, Intelligent

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• You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

  Robert Collier

  Positive, Opportunity, Thinking

  Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when nonvegetarians say that "human problems come first" I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Giving, Support

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• I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.

  Mordecai Richler

  Doctors, Essence, Problem

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

  Gore Vidal

  Inspirational, People, Personality

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jun 22, 2012

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• It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

  Aldous Huxley

  Peace, Kindness, Advice

  "Aldous Huxley - A Tribute" by Huston Smith, The Psychedelic Review, Volume 1, No. 3, Aldous Huxley Memorial Issue, pp. 264-265, 1964.

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• Love really is the answer to human problems: love of oneself, love of others, love of where one is, love of what one is doing, love of nature, love of life, love of the world, love of spirit in all its wonder and splendor. Love sets our energy free. It opens us and puts us in a flow with spirit and life on many levels. Love is the true secret behind manifestation.

  David Spangler

  Life, Freedom, Love Is

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• It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem-the most important of all human problems.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Views, Order

  "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, 1995.

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• If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. The place I am always looking for-because in order to keep the business I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values-is the place where I make something that could almost-but not quite-be understood by everyone.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Hate, Thinking, Order

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• Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master lies in education, in a broad liberal education where each student within his capacity can free himself from trammels of dogmatic prejudice and apply his educational accoutrement to besetting social and human problems.

  Harry Woodburn Chase

  Education, Lying, Men

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• The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Problem, Source, Egotism

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• All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Religious, Causes

  Timothy Keller (2016). “Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”.

  Jacque Fresco

  Greek, Problem, Polish

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• Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle it rejects all absolute schemes and concepts. It does not believe in any absolute truth, or in definite final goals for human development, but in an unlimited perfectibility of social arrangements and human conditions which are always straining after higher forms of expression, and to which for this reason one can assign no definite terminus nor set any fixed goal.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Believe, Expression, Order

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.15, AK Press

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