Human Quotes
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If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.
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You can't be human alone.
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The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'.
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The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.
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To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.
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In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
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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.
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As long as capital-both human and money-can move toward opportunity, trade will not balance.
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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.
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The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.
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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.
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The Bible nowhere says that animals are just made for human use. It does not say that the whole earth is just ours to do with as we like. Neither does it say that God's sole interest is with the human species. We cannot allow such an important and influential book to become the preserve of those who want to exploit animals. The Bible needs to be read, studied, and reclaimed for the animals.
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(In reply to 'So, you could technically eat a human?') "Could and would.”
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Animals are good human beings and human beings are bad animals.
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You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.
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What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
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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.
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Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
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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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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.