Menschliche Angelegenheiten / Human Affairs Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Menschliche Angelegenheiten / Human Affairs:

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. Desiderius Erasmus

The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions - pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down.

Richard Jefferies

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Allen

It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Noam Chomsky

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

Edward Bond

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

Frank B. Kellogg

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

Roger Bannister

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Desiderius Erasmus

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Matt Blunt

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Iris Murdoch

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

William Dunbar

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Saint Basil

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Stupid is a great force in human affairs.

P. J. O'Rourke

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.

W. E. B. Du Bois