Human Quotes
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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 -
I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
Natasha Lyonne
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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
Ornette Coleman -
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mahatma Gandhi -
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
Walter Mosley -
I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'
Dallas Willard -
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
J. M. Coetzee -
I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
Gary Hume
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I think all human beings are at least a little bit Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and many of us are downright quadrophenic.
Dave Smalley -
There has to be a global mission of human progress.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
Maya Angelou -
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
Salman Rushdie -
Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
P. J. Harvey -
When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
Immaculee Ilibagiza -
We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.
Menachem Begin -
The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
Laura Dern -
Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.
H. Allen Smith -
Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
W. Bruce Cameron
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
Jacki Weaver -
Human beings have always been mythmakers.
Karen Armstrong -
I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
Aaron Paul -
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Federico Garcia Lorca