Human Quotes
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(In reply to 'So, you could technically eat a human?') "Could and would.”
Jona Weinhofen Bleeding Through
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My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
Flann O'Brien
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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.
Vaclav Havel
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We're not trying to say that Patience Cooks is a horrible human being, but that act she committed on March 26, 2005, was horrible. Justice has to be blind. ... Human life has to mean more than that.
Brian Baker Bad Religion
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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
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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.
Anne Carson
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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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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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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
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If [Western] relations with Russia are to be friendly, they must be open and sincere, otherwise there can be no friendship at all. That means one should be able to speak openly about everything at meetings and conferences. It shouldn't be that we can't discuss the killing of journalists in Russia, or the suppression of human rights, or all the warning signs surfacing in Russia because of oil and gas or other economic reasons. It's a big problem, but it's the same in Western relations with Arab states.
Vaclav Havel
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I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox
David Foreman
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Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty.
Oswald Chambers
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I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182
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Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
Albert Einstein
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One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
Plato
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I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.
Lisa Kudrow
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We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.
Oprah Winfrey
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The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."
Vaclav Havel
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Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone.
Alane Ferguson
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The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.
Sigmund Freud
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Nothing human is foreign to us.
Edward G. Robinson
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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.
Oscar Wilde