Human Quotes
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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 -
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
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The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.
Allan Sekula -
Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.
Andrew Keen -
I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.
Donald Miller -
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
Albert Bandura -
Virtually every human being in the country has benefited from animal research.
John Young -
When you are a marginalized person or a woman of color and/or someone who's a part of the LGBTQ community, your acts become politicized, just by being yourself. Because we're not completely accepting of all different kinds of human beings. By being myself, I'm doing something political.
Amandla Stenberg
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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 -
Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I would say that I think the film "I am love" is absolutely about nature, it recommends human nature. You don't need to recommend change, that's inevitable, it's the only reliable thing we have.
Tilda Swinton -
Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.
Oscar Wilde -
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like?
Naomi Shihab Nye -
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
Idries Shah -
The emission of ideas by the press ought to be as free as the human capacity for thought.
Benito Juarez -
It's a human phenomenon that there has to be a reason for everything. There almost never is.
Theo Epstein -
I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.
Oprah Winfrey -
I'm just a human whose skill is making music.
Burna Boy
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Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.
Albert Bandura -
Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte -
We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.
Edwidge Danticat -
To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
Oscar Wilde