Human Quotes
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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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I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.
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As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.
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Do you really love me? means, Will you accept me in process? Will you embrace what is different about me and applaud my efforts to become? Can I just be human - strong an vibrant some days, weak and frail on others?...Will you love me even when I disappoint you?
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There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.
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I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.
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Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them.
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There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.
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If one is not a human being, what is one?
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I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.
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The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for human use.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.
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The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.
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We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other.
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If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
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The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love.
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There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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People have become educated but have yet to become human.
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The measurement of good policy is the well-being of the community. I saw the human faces of failed policies, and they weren't smiling.
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I am a human being, with feelings and emotions and scars and flaws, just like anyone else.
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'Peace' means rules respected by everyone - big or small, rich or poor - means cooperation. It means respect for human rights and dignity.
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We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We don't know enough to give up. We only know enough to know that we have to try to change the course of human events.
