Humans Quotes

• I’ve been shot at, hacked at, pummelled with catapult-stones, doused in flaming oil, tipped into drowning-pits, even covered by a landslide. I’ve seen every kind of violence humans know how to wreak, and I have learnt that you are creatures beyond cruel, beyond vengeful, beyond dishonest. So, yes, Knight. You are all villains in my mind.

  

  Ben Galley
  • Violence
  • Creatures
  • Villains

• The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Should
  • Conditions
  • Dollars

• Lights of the world, and stars of human race.

  

  William Cowper
  • World
  • Light
  • Race

• Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

  

  Muhammad Yunus
  • Poverty
  • Rights
  • Absence

• The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here.

  

  Eric Lander
  • Humans
  • Species

• I can't relate to the people who shoot wolves. I'm guessing the person who shot Wolf 06 wouldn't relate much to me either. You let people go out and shoot hundreds of wolves and watch violent movies, and then you're surprised when they go on a rampage shooting other humans. You can't separate violence like that.

  

  Zoe Helene
  • People
  • Violence
  • Persons

• To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Important
  • Empathy
  • Skills

• I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

  

  Raymond Carver
  • Humans
  • Rooms
  • Beating

• The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!

  

  Mohnish Pabrai
  • Problems
  • Humans
  • Investing

• We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.

  

  Nellie McClung
  • Peaceful
  • Beings
  • Apologizing

• Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

  

  Michael McCaul
  • Rights
  • Budgets
  • Annuals

• We are going to need organizations that are culturally equipped to adapt. They must have internal processes that are creative, generative, and productive rather than controlled, confining, and normative. In short, we must UNSHACKLE THE HUMAN BRAIN and exploit its productive potential.

  

  Karl Albrecht
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Productive

• You know, your species humans has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Humans
  • Destroy
  • Self-Deception

• Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.

  

  Brenda Peterson
  • Knowledge
  • Experiences
  • Scientist

• We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Want
  • Feels
  • Humans

• In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined.

  

  Bruce Alberts
  • Humans
  • Worms

• Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Imagination
  • Heaven
  • Literature

• And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

  

  Warsan Shire
  • Should
  • Strange
  • Mouths

• The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

  

  Raymond Williams
  • Understanding
  • Humans

• Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fear
  • Humans
  • Stupidity

• One problem with people is that as soon as they fill a space it's them you see and not the space. Large, desolate landscapes stop being large, desolate landscapes once they have people in them. They define what the eye sees. And the human eye is almost always directed at other humans. In this way an illusion is created that humans are more important than those things on earth which are not human. It's a sick illusion.

  

  Erlend Loe
  • People
  • Important
  • Landscape

• People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

  

  Mstislav Rostropovich
  • People
  • Important
  • Balance

• Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Interesting
  • Characteristics
  • Manifestation

• Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Produce
  • Matches
  • Refrigerators

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