Humans Quotes
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If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view.
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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
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Why? Why do humans always look to the sky? Why do you try so hard to fly when you don't have any wings? We'll run on our own legs.
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The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
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The Ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal.
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I think if humans are really going to explore the solar system, or go beyond our immediate neighborhood, we are going to have to go with nuclear power. Nuclear power really is the development of the steam ship compared to sailing ships.
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The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
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Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.
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Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.
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The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.
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I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.
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Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.
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We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.
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Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.
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Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.
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Animals don’t follow unstable pack leaders; only humans promote, follow, and praise instability. Only humans have leaders who can lie and get away with it. Around the world, most of the pack leaders we follow today are not stable. Their followers may not know it, but Mother Nature is far too honest to be fooled by angry, frustrated, jealous, competitive, stubborn, or other negative energy - even if it is masked by a politician’s smile.
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It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss.
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Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.
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Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
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On or about December 1910, human character changed.
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Those who consume animals not only harm those animals and endanger themselves, but they also threaten the well-being of other humans who currently or will later inhabit the planet. ... It is time for humans to remove their heads from the sand and recognize the risk to themselves that can arise from their maltreatment of other species.
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One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.