Humans Quotes
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To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.
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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.
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It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.
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Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.
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It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put yourself on the line in the way you had to when you took 250 gamma of LSD. And I think all these other methods are efficacious, but I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off.
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Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.
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The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
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These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.
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If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
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It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon.
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With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
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For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.
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A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.
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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
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The Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran.
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If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.
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Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
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We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.
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Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap.
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the human race; the evidence of all facts that have yet been established in Geology coincides with the records of Sacred History and Profane Tradition to confirm the conclusion that the existence of mankind can on no account be supposed to have taken its beginning before that time which is assigned to it in the Mosaic writings.
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Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up fantasy scenarios where they're simple machines, and get hurt and do things they regret.
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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.
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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?
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What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.
