Human Quotes
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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 -
Human beings have always been mythmakers.
Karen Armstrong
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch -
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.
H. Allen Smith -
One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.
George Meany -
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson -
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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Federico Garcia Lorca -
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
D. H. Lawrence -
Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
Naomie Harris -
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Jacob Bronowski -
Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
Barbra Streisand -
I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
Natalie Goldberg
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
Aaron Paul -
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
Adam Hochschild -
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
H. L. Mencken -
Big stories need human stakes.
Aaron Swartz -
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
Edmund Waller -
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Salman Rushdie
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The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
Octave Mirbeau -
The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
Adam Ferguson -
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W. H. Auden -
A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.
Naveen Jain