Human Quotes
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My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.
Dalai Lama
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It must be tiring being Bob Dylan for the past 50 years. People act like he's not even human, which must be hard work. Every room he walks into just goes quiet.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons -
No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.
Iris Chang -
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
Gaston Bachelard -
The human experience is all about learning as much as yuh can…
Skip Marley -
(In reply to 'So, you could technically eat a human?') "Could and would.”
Jona Weinhofen Bleeding Through
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Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
Louise Hart -
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 -
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
Henry Ward Beecher -
What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
Barry Hannah -
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
Walter Isaacson -
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
Daniel Berrigan
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Everybody has had the experience of something they love – whether it's a pop song or a painting or a movie – feeling so perfect to them that it's almost like it came from another planet. It has nothing to do with ordinary life, which is very plain. And there's something depressing about that in a way, because you feel like you're this small little human, and you feel like it has nothing to do with you.
Will Sheff Okkervil River -
Sometimes the human race is given absolutely marvellous gifts, and we take those gifts and squander them just because we are human beings. This is all about that.
Stuart Adamson Big Country -
So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.
Oswald Chambers -
I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.
Lisa Kudrow -
If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.
Vaclav Havel -
To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
Louise Erdrich
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A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.
Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons -
I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
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.
Leontyne Price -
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed.
Abraham Lincoln