Human Spirit Quotes - Page 7

• By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.

  William Faulkner

  Mean, Artist, Tools

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.143, Modern Library

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• Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.

  Dalai Lama

  Gun, Power, Government

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• The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Hate, Political Revolution, Liberty

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• When the Holy Spirit comes to live within you, He will come with the ability to produce righteousness. Righteousness is the nature of God, which when imparted to the human spirit, produces the rightness of God in the human spirit. It gives man right standing with God; it gives him the ability to stand in the presence of God without a sense of guilt, inferiority or condemnation. It means rightness in God. The righteousness of God is wrought in you.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Mean, Men, Giving

  Chris Oyakhilome PhD. (2014). “Seven Things The Holy Spirit Will Do For You”, p.26, LoveWorld Publishing

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• I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Book, Offering

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Thinking, Spirit, Capacity

  "Journalist kidnapped in Somalia: Reunion with mom 'felt like home'" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• The human spirit is indomitable, unless your talking specifically about the people I know.

  Dov Davidoff

  Talking, People, Spirit

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jul 24, 2011

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• Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit.

  George W. Bush

  Crush, Determination, Rogues

  "Ivins: Beyond the pale" by Molly Ivins, www.cnn.com. September 28, 2006.

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• Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

  Jay Griffiths

  People, Excess, Spirit

  "Call of the wild" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2007.

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• Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Reality, Historical, Spirit

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.58, Princeton University Press

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• We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Errors, Rights

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.55, American Foundation for the Blind

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• I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.

  Julianna Baggott

  Believe, Past, Evil

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• The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the most ambitious creations of the human spirit, . . .so magnificent, so daring, that it has rightly aroused the greatest admiration. If we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to refute Socialism, but we cannot thrust it carelessly aside.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Simple, Ideas, Wish

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• If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general, we must employ some such phrase as 'spiritual force.' This will mean whatever forces act in the human spirit, whether good or evil, whether personal passion or impersonal principle; doubts, desires, scruples, ideas-whatever can animate, shake, possess, and drive a man's soul. [19]In a Shakespearean tragedy some such forces are shown in conflict.

  A. C. Bradley

  Spiritual, Struggle, Mean

  A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.19, A. C. Bradley

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• Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.

  Immanuel Kant

  Ghost Stories, Ignorant, World

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• The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

  Walter Pater

  Philosophy, Culture, Spirit

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

  Lin Yutang

  Art, Thinking, Play

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• History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

  Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

  Real, History, Facts

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• America's egalitarian mandate reflects the liberality of the creator, and thus countermands, by divine witness, all feudal and aristocratic structures. It also parallels the Jewish concept of repair the world, or Tikkun ha'olam, which holds that the human spirit is in partnership with God to help finish the work of creation.

  Forrest Church

  America, World, Spirit

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• Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Wine, Drunk, Majesty

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• The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit - a spirit that demands self-expression .

  Thurgood Marshall

  Self, Expression, Needs

  "Procunier v. Martinez". Free-speech case, supreme.justia.com. 1974.

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• When the concept of human spirit is understood as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the Cosmos as a whole, it becomes clear that ecological awareness is spiritual in its deepest sense.

  Fritjof Capra

  Spiritual, Cosmos, Consciousness

  Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Cities, Perfect

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• There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.

  Linda Hogan

  Spirit, Common, Geography

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• What is the alt-right? It's a dressed-up term for white nationalism. They call themselves white identitarianism. They say that the tribalism that's inherent in the human spirit ought to be also applied to white people.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  People, Spirit, Term

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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