Humans Quotes
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Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
Scott Westerfeld
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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.
Buzz Aldrin
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I think the whole human-induced greenhouse gas thing is a red herring... . I see climate change as due to the ocean circulation pattern. I see this as a major cause of climate change... . These are natural processes. We shouldn't blame them on humans and CO2.
William M. Gray
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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.
Thomas Sowell
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Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
Freya Stark
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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.
Bill Vaughan
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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
William Glasser
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I foster a lot. Not humans, animals.
Bellamy Young
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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.
Robert W. Service
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Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.
Chuck Klosterman
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
William James
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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.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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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.
Wendy McElroy
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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.
Erin Andrews
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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.
Donald Miller
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I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
Curt Flood
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Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.
Anthony Caro
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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.
Etienne Gilson
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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Norman Cousins
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Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
Ann Druyan
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Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.
Virginia Satir
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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
Andrew Solomon
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Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
Jhumpa Lahiri