Human Problems Quotes - Page 3

• Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem to him to be so; it is a problem of attitude to contemporary society and culture in relation to the basic human problem of learning to be human.

  John Blacking

  Music, Attitude, Culture

  John Blacking (1974). “How Musical is Man?”, p.104, University of Washington Press

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• Most human problems can be solved by an appropriate charge of high explosive.

  Joe Gayton

  Statistics, Problem, Humans

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• When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Goes On, Spirit, Problem

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• The problems we face are human problems and therefore are capable of human solutions.

  Fred M. Vinson

  Faces, Problem, Humans

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• My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d'etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age 'proper living' means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression.

  Angela Davis

  Philosophy, Mean, Thinking

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• I’ve never seen an exploding helicopter. I’ve never seen anybody go and blow somebody’s head off. So why should I make films about them? But I have seen people destroy themselves in the smallest way, I’ve seen people withdraw, I’ve seen people hide behind political ideas, behind dope, behind the sexual revolution, behind fascism, behind hypocrisy, and I’ve myself done all these things. So I can understand them. What we are saying is so gentle. It’s gentleness. We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

  John Cassavetes

  Blow, Dope, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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• Jesus is the ultimate solution to every human problem and the ultimate hope for all mankind.

  Rick Joyner

  Jesus, Problem, Mankind

  FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from Oct 11, 2010

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• We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

  Albert Einstein

  Organization, Scientific Method, Experts

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.

  James C. Collins

  Enemy, Problem, Humans

  "Good To Great And The Social Sectors". Book by James C. Collins, 2005.

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• Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus. .... No other organism, and certainly no computer, can be made to confront genuine human problems in human terms. ... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the future, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Future, Science, Men

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• Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it.

  Carl Jung

  Talking, Giving, Perspective

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

  Freeman Dyson

  Humor, Problem, Characteristics

  "Disturbing the Universe". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1979.

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• Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems

  Andrea Jones

  Looks, Problem, Plant

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• People once considered that religions were obsolete and that material science would solve all human problems. Then they have become disillusioned with materialism and machinery and have realized that spiritual sciences are also indispensable for human welfare.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, People, Problem

  Interview with Robert Thurman, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1997.

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