Humans Quotes
-
The biggest challenge is how to get people to wake up and realize this is a one-shot deal. If we fail, we are witting participants in the biggest experiment humans have ever done: moving CO2 levels to twice their value in the past 670.000 years and hoping it turns out okay for generations to come.
Nathan Lewis
-
Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.
Gary A. Kowalski
-
So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology. But when it comes to the Middle East, and especially the Arab world, simply depicting people as human beings is the most political thing you can do.
Annia Ciezadlo
-
I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.
William Gilbert
-
I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
-
...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.
Arno Gruen
-
Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done,
I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.
Spider Robinson
-
Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
William Wordsworth
-
The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.
John Gardner
-
I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.
Paul Newman
-
You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
Wole Soyinka
-
I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.
James Stewart
-
Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
William J. H. Boetcker
-
Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.
Keith Devlin
-
From the standpoint of the world’s biota, global travel represents a radically new phenomenon and, at the same time, a replay of the very old. The drifting apart of the continents that Wegener deduced from the fossil record is now being reversed—another way in which humans are running geologic history backward and at high speed. Think of it as a souped-up version of plate tectonics, minus the plates. By transporting Asian species to North America, and North American species to Australia, and Australian species to Africa, and European species to Antarctica, we are, in effect, reassembling the world into one enormous supercontinent—what biologists sometimes refer to as the New Pangaea.
Elizabeth Kolbert
