Human Quotes
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I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
Barbra Streisand
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I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.
Calista Flockhart
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Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
Ralph Merkle
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Salman Rushdie
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
Natalie Zea
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Hannah Arendt
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For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
D. A. Carson
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
Victor Hugo
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The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.
R. C. Sproul
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch
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Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?
Oliver Tambo
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I am just one human being.
Dalai Lama
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Maybe I should mention it: I was not from the beginning mainly interested in papilloma virus; I was mainly interested in infectious agents in human cancer. So papilloma viruses came up as the most likely candidate from my viewpoint.
Harald zur Hausen
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Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.
Zola Jesus
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Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
H. Rap Brown
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
Lactantius
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I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'
Vikas Swarup
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
Herodotus
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. Wells