Human Quotes
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I'm telling you lady I'm only human, not looking for impossibility. Just a genuine woman with sincerity.
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The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.
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I'm a wordless storyteller, someone who cares about the dynamics of music...Musical dynamics are human dynamics.
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As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
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I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.
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The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.
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Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.
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We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.
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I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.
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He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.
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Animals are good human beings and human beings are bad animals.
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If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.
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Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.
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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
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Nature is not human hearted.
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There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise, then break apart. Businesses grow, then fold. There are no exceptions. I'm OK with all that. Yet it pains me to bear witness to the sixth great extinction, where we humans are directly responsible for the extirpation of so many wonderful creatures and invaluable indigenous cultures. It saddens me to observe the plight of our own species; we appear to be incapable of solving our problems.
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To survive today, other animals must endure global warming, pollution, and fewer habitats. More tragically, they must endure the silence of human hearts.
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I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.
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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
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Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.
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I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.
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Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
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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.
