By The Better Angels Of Our Nature Quotes

#1. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln

#2. The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith, which is surely the devil's masterpiece.

Sam Harris

#3. In our resolve to build a better world ... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

James Earl Jones

#4. As Abraham Lincoln said, "We listen to the better angels of our nature so our life will have more order and success." Vic:

Jim Rohn

#5. Without stories, reality would destroy us. She says stories and myths and heroes challenge us to be worthy of a larger reality. To listen to the better angels of our nature. To be more than what we are.

Abigail Strom

#6. Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

Robert Breault

#7. Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.

James L. Buckley

#8. Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves an essential spiritual and ethical question: Are we the kind of people who take everything for ourselves and leave nothing for others, or do the angels of our better nature still live? I believe the angels are still alive.

James Balog

#9. Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

Jim Leach

#10. The better angels of his nature told him that he wasn't a good enough man to be her first, but the heaviness that was settling in his balls gave the devil a distinct advantage, demanding that he at least give it a try.

Roselynn Randerod

#11. The better angels of our nature

Abraham Lincoln

#12. If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.

Matt Damon