Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.Nelson Mandela
I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.Steven Pinker
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.Steven Pinker
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.Karl Marx
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.John D. Rockefeller
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.Karl Marx
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.Ralph Waldo Emerson
