Humans Quotes
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Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?
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We may be human, but we're still animals.
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Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.
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Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.
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Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice.
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...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.
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And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.
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I am opposed to globalism, I am opposed to colonialism, I am opposed to any sort of complusion of one nation over another. I also deeply believe in human rights.
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I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.
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If done well, I believe the photographic representation of the human subject has the potential to be more revealing than what is revealed by the eye alone, since the human glance is usually a momentary one.
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I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.
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Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have existed. The Army has done so because of its unique character- a uniqueness based primarily upon intangibles that cannot be costed.
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Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
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The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
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The concept of karma is a beautiful concept in Sanskrit. The whole idea of karma is that every being has an innate tendency - the karma of ice is to be cold, the karma of fire is to burn, the karma of the trees is to grow and bear fruit. In the same way, a human has a certain thrust. What I've realized is that my thrust is to be in the world, like in the world of business.
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
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The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human beings on earth. The challenge is to make women believe in their power. "Woman as victim" is an idea whose time has passed. The idea of woman as a survivor and a success must take its place.
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Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
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You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
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To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
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I foster a lot. Not humans, animals.
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Humans feel at home in a world of things, whose essences and laws it can grasp and define in terms of concepts; but shy and ill at ease in a world of existences, because to exist is an act, not a thing.
