Human Quotes
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Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away with or destroy; to waste or to squander; to use up." The economies that cater to the global consumer society are responsible for the lion's share of the damage that humans have inflicted on common global resources.
Alan Thein Durning
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Health care is a moral and human right.
Aja Monet
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Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it.
Nick Morgan
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Errors are what make us human. Plot twist: i'm a horse.
Amy King
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You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
Joanne Rowling
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Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.
Allan Sandage
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My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
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Positivity psychology is part and parcel of psychology. Being human includes both ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. Positive psychology devotes somewhat more attention to the ups and the opportunities, whereas traditional psychology - at least historically - has paid more attention to the downs.
Barbara Fredrickson
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Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
Alexander McQueen
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To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and to build a world community which will stand as a lasting monument to the millions of men and women, to such devoted and distinguished world citizens and fighters for peace as the late Dag Hammarskjöld, who have given their lives that we may live in happiness and peace.
Albert Lutuli
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Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.
James Boswell
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...what started with those simple requirements – make her notice me, but guarantee that nobody understood how I felt – turned into the cruelest thing I have ever done to another human.
Courtney Milan
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Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever.
Evgeny Morozov
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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.
Eric Pianka
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We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.
Eugene Kennedy
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There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.
Daniel Pearce
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We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.
Rebecca MacKinnon
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The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.
Anthony Robbins
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I watched 'Hey Hey' religiously every Saturday night like every other single human that I knew.
Rebecca Breeds
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It's amazing what your body does to produce another human... you should thank your body for what it does.
Alyson Hannigan
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I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority
Killer Mike
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There are many great minds on earth and not all are human.
Anthony Douglas Williams