Human Quotes
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If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
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Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
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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.
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The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility. Without a global revolution in human consciousness, nothing will change for the better, and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed will be unavoidable.
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I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.
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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?
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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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It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.
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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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Virtually every human being in the country has benefited from animal research.
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There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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.
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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.
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The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.
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We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.
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The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.
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Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty.
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Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
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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.
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Never place your trust in us. We’re only human. Inevitably, we will disappoint you.
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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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Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way.
