Humans Quotes
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You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.
Elizabeth Aston
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Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.
Aviva Chomsky
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We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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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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We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person.
Richard John Neuhaus
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Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the memories of machines, men and women. The question that history sets forth. The question which forces us to define ourselves and whose answer makes us human: On which side are you?
Subcomandante Marcos
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The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.
Weston La Barre
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The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.
George Horace Lorimer
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Humans want to create lots of cool stuff, then they want to see other people using that stuff. A lot.
Ben Chestnut
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
Rollo May
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There are principles that govern human effectiveness - natural laws in the human dimension that are just as real, just as unchanging and unarguably there as laws such as gravity are in the physical dimension.
Stephen Covey
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We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.
William Irwin Thompson
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Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.
Claudia Hammond
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The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical sic science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.
Alexandre Koyre
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One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral.
William Segal
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I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it.
Jarvis Cocker
Pulp
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Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
Milan Kundera
