“While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.” HumansWarStatesFacesLyingCausesMilitaryPolicyObjectsSourceConflictDeterminationFundamentalsContraryPursueOpposingHuman WillContinuance Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in people to jump up and down, exaggeratedly scratch themselves and holler in a way that must make the primates wonder how this otherwise so intelligent species has come to depend on such inferior means of communication.” PeopleWayHumansMeanBeliefWonderCommunicationDependsSightIntelligentSpeciesContraryUrgesReverseInferiorsMonkeysScratchesUp And DownApesIrresistiblePrimatesMeans Of Communication Author:Frans de Waal
“If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of others, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he might be able, to forward their views and promote their happiness, all would be active and harmonious in the goodly frame of human society.” IfsMenHumansCountryMightWould BeAbleViewsRightsDutyFilledActiveContraryStationsDiligenceHarmoniousHuman Society Book:A Practical View of Preferred Christians Source: A Practical View of Preferred Christians
“Contrary to the romantic way in which our history is/has been portrayed, politicians are NOT 'men of good conscience.' In the real world, it takes a psychopath to want to rule over other human beings. Unless you want to define the word 'service' in the context of what a bull does to a cow, in no way are the efforts of politicians in this regard any kind of 'service'.” MenWorldWayWantHumansKindDoeHas BeensRealPoliticalHuman BeingsEffortPoliticianConscienceRegardContraryReal WorldCowsBullsPsychopath Author:Edward Britton
“But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.” HumansStoriesValuesFallHuman BeingsOur LivesDespairEvidencePatternsContrarySettingSettingsDepressingChaotic Book:A Short History Of Myth Source: A Short History Of Myth
“Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.” IfsMenHumansDoeHuman NatureNegativeOneselfContrarySelf WorthContemporaryPermanentAnalysisGreekRebellionRebelSuspicion Author:Albert Camus
“Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.” HumansEndsAtheismTearsComfortPromiseWorshipContraryPriestsAfflictionWoeDeitiesAltarsCoffinsAnnihilationAnother LifeIncense Author:François-René de Chateaubriand