Humans Quotes
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There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.
David Foreman
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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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Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
Richard John Neuhaus
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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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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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A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.
William James
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I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet.
Sergio Leone
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
William Hazlitt
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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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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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You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
George Mikes
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I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.
Owen Wister
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This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.
Curtis White
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I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
Willa Cather
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We've all got to get together and demand something better out of our government and out of each other. We've got a system that's making us working harder, and isn't giving us satisfaction. We've got to sit down and decide what the hell we really want to be as human beings.
Paul R. Ehrlich
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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
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Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
Miroslav Volf
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We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.
Miep Gies
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It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.
Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
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Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
Tom Hanks
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Even among humans, self-awareness has gradations.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home.
Zoe Helene
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Very few people realize the damage even one mercury vapor light can inflict on birds, air quality and human sleep patterns. It a serious problem that is rapidly growing and it will take all of us to take action before we see results.
Will Young