Human Quotes
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Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.
Andrew Harvey
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Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.
Ernest Sosa
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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.
Baruch Spinoza
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God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.
Walter Brueggemann
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Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.
Marge Piercy
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Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948.
Albert Einstein
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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
Corrie Ten Boom
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The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
Richard Strauss
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When human glory rises high As human glory can; When though the king is truly great, Still greater is the man.
Edward Joseph Young
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When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in baseball but something was missing in my life. That something was Christ. Every human being is born with a little defect in his heart. That defect is a hole in the heart that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.
Carlos Beltran
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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Meryl Streep
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The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
Albert Einstein
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The righteousness of God's Kingdom is the product of God's reign in the human heart. God must reign in our lives now if we are to enter the Kingdom tomorrow.
George Eldon Ladd
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There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.
Edwidge Danticat
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I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.
Delia Sherman
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To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!
Lord Byron
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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 lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.
W. A. Criswell
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To turn a human being into a part-canine or lupine creature takes a good deal of artistry and money.
David Hayter
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
Angela Davis
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In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have rapid or slow advance in this direction or in that depending on the number of really first-class men who are engaged in the work in question. ... So in the last analysis, the future of science in this country will be determined by our basic educational policy.
James Bryant Conant
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The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.
Adam Nicolson
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I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.
Friedrich Nietzsche