“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.” ThinkingHumansWarEnoughProcessEffortRaceBreakDemocracyProgressSocietyRevolutionTownsDrivenAwakeningMinoritiesNow And ThenReformationHaltBarbariansBreak ThroughFrench RevolutionHuman ProgressHorde Author:H. L. Mencken
“I think that people are going to find more interest in the human condition, especially with them being weaned on so much reality television. They want character driven stuff along with real violence. Cage fighting is very popular with the kids right now. They see and know what one punch can do to someone's face. You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantGivingHumansRealCharacterRealityKidsFilmFacesFightingStuffInterestCan DoFiveViolenceConditionsTelevisionRight NowHundredDrivenHuman ConditionCagesVery PopularReality Television Author:Dolph Lundgren
“No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.” WayHumansSeemsRealizingPowerfulEmotionPersonalityEssentialsDespairAmbitionDrivenComponentsHuman PersonalityMysterious Benedict SocietyPowerful Emotions Author:Trenton Lee Stewart
“Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.” HumansHeartSecretVirtueVictimVicesDrivenStealingGuiltyDevotedHuman HeartInfamy Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings - "Think of your forefathers and of your posterity."” ThinkingHumansHeartCountryFeelingsBattleDrivenAppealsBritainFollowersHuman HeartPersuasionPosterityInvasionIrresistibleThink Of YouBarbariansForefathersExtremityPower Of Persuasion Author:John Quincy Adams
“Change shakes us up, and we can thank our Muse for it... we are driven by change to create, to excel, and to become better humans, perhaps even more sensitive humans!” HumansChangeDrivenSensitiveShakesMuse Author:Max Elliott Slade