Humans Quotes
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It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.
Gentry Lee
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In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights.
Evo Morales
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If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.
Dalai Lama
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
Willa Cather
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This legendary Amazonian substance is a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body.
Terence McKenna
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If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.
Thomas Sowell
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A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.
William James
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When you come to the spiritual needs, the emotional needs, the needs of our inner life, then politics and business and technology are completely impotent. They are completely unable to meet and address the needs of human beings.
Satish Kumar
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The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.
Terry Eagleton
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Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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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.
William Howard Taft
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When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.
Gayl Jones
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As human beings, what we can do is extend help in whatever way possible.
Nita Ambani
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There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Writing to offer a piece of information or a connection is a great way to demonstrate that you're looking out for the other person. Humans have a tendency to want to reciprocate, so the more you show you're looking out for someone, the more likely that person will begin to keep you in mind as well.
Adam Rifkin
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We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.
David Rolf
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Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will go, we can turn a gene on or off, and we can even send a robot to Mars, but we are lost if asked to explain or predict the phenomena we might expect to know the most about, the actions of our fellow humans.
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
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Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.
Mike Mills
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Humans were my study animal now - I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they make. I studied their cries, and their contact calls, and their alarm signals. I never listened to what they were saying - I watched what they were doing, which is really the exact opposite of the Freuds and Jungs and Adlers.
Bill Mollison
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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
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The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.
Carleton S. Coon
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
Mikhail Bakunin
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Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator.
William J. Seymour