Frederick M. Vinson Quotes

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.

I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

The bad, angry, upset, wounded people are more interesting, so they're in the news more, but I don't think they're in the majority. I have faith that things will change - I mean, just like everybody else, I don't fix my roof until it's actually leaking, but eventually, we all get round to doing it.

'Star Trek' works for me because it deals with the petty issues of humankind.

At its heart, 'South Park' has a touching faith in human beings: that despite their absurdities and flaws, people have the capacity to create a better world.

If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems.

Focus on opportunities, not problems.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”.

Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?

I see problems that can be fixed because I see solutions that are actually occurring.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

The worst of faces still is human.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

I'd like to say that people... people can change anything they want to; and that means everything in the world. Show me any country and there'll be people in it. And it's the people that make the country. People have got to stop pretending they're not on the world... It's time to take that humanity back into the center of the ring and follow that for a time... Think on that. Without people you're nothing.

One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.