Eva Hoffman Quotes

Momentary pleasures of hedonism are distinct from deeper and more lasting satisfaction; and in order to achieve such satisfaction, we need to reflect on who we are and what our lives are for. We cannot be fully human without thinking about what being human means.

Eva Hoffman

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• Satisfaction
• Reflect
• Hedonism

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• There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

  

  B. C. Forbes
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  • Satisfaction
  • Truck

• I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Think
  • Change
  • Human

• I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Human

• Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Human
  • Act
  • Morality

• We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • War
  • Human
  • Financial

• I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Human
  • Actor
  • Human being

• Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Human
  • Place

• I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Respect
  • Proud
  • Human

• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Human

• I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Think
  • Human
  • Human being

• Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Happy
  • Wisdom
  • Human

• Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Life
  • Human

• The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important.

  

  Hamadoun Toure
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Human

• The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Human
  • Curious

• If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Human
  • Slavery
  • Questions

• I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Think
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  • Worst

• The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Best
  • Human
  • Word

• There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

  

  Patrick Campbell
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Courage

• Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Thought
  • Human
  • Bitter

• I feel naked without my rings, and don't like walking out of the house without them, even if they do tear half of my sweaters and stab my friends in the eye.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Friends
  • House
  • Eye

• Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve.

  

  William Ernest Hocking
  • Party
  • Helping
  • Social

• I don't think I've gotten any faster. I think just my stride has gotten more powerful. Just going wide, being able to drive to the net and get by the D, using the strength in my legs to get there. Kind of like the type of skater that Erik Cole is. He's got great speed, but he's got such a powerful stride, it makes him tough to stop.

  

  Eric Staal
  • Stop
  • Speed
  • Legs

• A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.

  

  Newton D. Baker
  • Common
  • Ideals
  • Fraternity

• Momentary pleasures of hedonism are distinct from deeper and more lasting satisfaction; and in order to achieve such satisfaction, we need to reflect on who we are and what our lives are for. We cannot be fully human without thinking about what being human means.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Human
  • Satisfaction
  • Reflect