Human Quotes
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The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part.
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The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
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All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.
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Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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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.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your life is to figure out your function-your part in the whole-as soon as possible, and then get about the business of fulfilling it as only you can.
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Politics runs in every human being, and so does music.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.
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We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
