Human Quotes
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To understand my feelings — and my conception of the role of Secretary General — the nature of my religious and cultural background must first be understood. I should therefore like to outline not only my beliefs but also my conception of human institutions and of the human situation itself.
U Thant
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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
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I'm a wordless storyteller, someone who cares about the dynamics of music...Musical dynamics are human dynamics.
Ahmad Jamal
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Imelda Marcos
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I'm only a human being.
Wayne Rooney
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I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.
Doris Day
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Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Walter Lippmann
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I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a Vegetarian lifestyle and I have faith and hopes in change in human destiny, thanks to the physical effects and benefits of a healthier diet and its influence on the character of the people. It will bring about some benefit and improvement to human society.
Albert Einstein
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Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.
W. G. Sebald
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
Kanye West
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If it comes to a choice between being a good soldier and a good human being -- try to be a good human being.
Anton Myrer
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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
Carl Barks
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The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.
Hamza Yusuf
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Nature is not human hearted.
Lao Tzu
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The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
Gaston Bachelard
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
Larry Niven
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A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.
Allan Sekula
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Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.
Sam Kean
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A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute
Rumi
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
R. C. Sproul
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There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.
R. C. Sproul
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
D. H. Lawrence