Humans Quotes
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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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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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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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Human beings crave freedom at their core.
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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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I foster a lot. Not humans, animals.
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Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
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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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We may be human, but we're still animals.
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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.
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I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.
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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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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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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
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God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.
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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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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 purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.
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In other words: If an organism is stuck in survival mode, its energies are focused on fighting off unseen enemies, which leaves no room for nurture, care, and love. For us humans, it means that as long as the mind is defending itself against invisible assaults, our closest bonds are threatened, along with our ability to imagine, plan, play, learn, and pay attention to other people’s needs.
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Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.
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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.
