Human Spirit Quotes - Page 8

• Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spirit, Socialism, Destruction

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Commencement address at Harvard University, June 7, 1978.

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• I tell young actresses today who are looking to get into films, "First of all, you are marginalized by the color of your skin." I tell actresses, "If you're too tall, if you're too fat, you're not going to work. I don't care how talented you are." It's a business, and sex sells. Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell. Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary.

  Pam Grier

  Art, Special, Skins

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Progress, Spirit

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary. You'll have Julia Roberts, you'll have Robert Redford, you'll have Russell Crowe doing those films, because if they're going to cost $90 million, they're going to make that movie for a public that's very large and mainstream. They're not going to make it for three or four million black people.

  Pam Grier

  Art, Yes You Can, Icons

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot of bad things, too - a tremendous amount. But I don't think that the final justification of religion is the good it does for people. I think the final justification is that it's true, and truth takes priority over consequences. Religion helps us deal with what is most important to the human spirit: values, meaning, purpose, and quality.

  Huston Smith

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Next to the human spirit the human body is the most marvelous of God's creations.

  Sterling W Sill

  Exercise, God's Creation, Body

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• [Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Zoos, Stupid, Mean

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• We need music to restore the human spirit

  Leonard Slatkin

  Needs, Spirit, Humans

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• The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

  Pope John Paul II

  Art, Purpose, Spirit

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• When I look in the mirror I see my parents' sacrifices being honored. I see the love from which I was created and the power of the human spirit.

  Zulay Henao

  Sacrifice, Mirrors, Parent

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.

  Murray Bookchin

  Earth, Libertarian, Spirit

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• There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed.

  Emil Nolde

  Art, Blue, Sky

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• The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Children, Integrity

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• If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute.

  Vashti Bunyan

  Have Faith, Lasts, Spirit

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Falling In Love, Princess, Hero

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spirit, Prime, Function

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.7, New World Library

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• The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.

  Zoltan Istvan

  Dream, Comfort, Spirit

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• We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, theres still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

  Ishmael Beah

  Moving, Joy, Radiance

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• God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Pain, Men, United States

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1979). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Struggle, Fall

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• He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.

  Johan Huizinga

  Past, Squares, America

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• There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Beauty, Inspiration, Eye

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• The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Sports, Sex, Healthy

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• There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Betrayal, Philosophy, War

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.

  Bob Uecker

  Play, Skills, Numbers

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