Human Quotes
-
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.
-
I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.
-
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.
-
Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
-
I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.
-
I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like?
-
It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.
-
Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
-
If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
-
Virtually every human being in the country has benefited from animal research.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
-
The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
-
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.
-
Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds, together with the yelping and barking of dogs, are the only noises that reach one through the depths of the upper air. The human voice cannot mount up into these boundless solitudes. Human beings look like ants along the white lines that are highways; and the rows of houses look like children's playthings.
-
We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.
-
(In reply to 'So, you could technically eat a human?') "Could and would.”
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox
-
In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.
