Human Quotes
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
Cesare Pavese
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I’m quite civilized, I promise,’ Manythanks sniffed, smiling. ‘Wairwulves are cultured. We have choirs and charity races and rotary clubs. It’s when we’re human that you must take care.
Catherynne M. Valente
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It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.
Allen Newell
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As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
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No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.
Sarah Addison Allen
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Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.
Elizabeth Lowell
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Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,-all the richer and more human for having known this great passion.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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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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If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.
Eugene V. Debs
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The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?
Wesley J. Smith
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All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.
Neil Gorsuch
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If one is not a human being, what is one?
Achille Mbembe
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We are all dually feminine and masculine. To give in to both of those things would strengthen us as human beings and there is such a drastic difference between men, and men who are terrified of their own femininity.
Ruston Kelly
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In India the human being is a symphonic theme. 'The people' is not a compact, close-knit concept, but a sprawling one, flowing not only into different walks of life, but into the intricately woven multi-layers of privilege, wealth, and education. 'The people' created by Gandhi is a young concept.
Nayantara Sahgal
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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.
Elizabeth May
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Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.
Elise M. Boulding
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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
Victor Hugo
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I consider myself as a human being with lots of ups and downs and learning from a lot of failures before I can succeed.
Kalki Koechlin
