Humans Quotes
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Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.
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I have believed for a long time that human nature is a reciprocity of what is inside the skin and what is outside: that it is definitely not "rolled up inside us" but our way of being one with our fellows and our world. I call this field theory.
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Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.
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We may be human, but we're still animals.
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Human beings crave freedom at their core.
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For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.
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My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.
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A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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Every woman is a character - but people need to see I'm a regular human. It's like you wear a pink wig and you're no longer human all of sudden.
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Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.
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Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.
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Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be properly explained in reference to the whole Bible.
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Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
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Assuming that humans continue to burn fossil fuels, the oceans will continue to absorb carbon dioxide and will become increasingly acidified.
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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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Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.
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I don't know what I am thinking. But I am alone. I am trapped in the net of the room. In the net of humans. I think maybe I am drowning in the net of humans.
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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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In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.
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We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
