Humans Quotes
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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.
William Godwin
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Witches didn't need blood to survive, but humans didn't need wine, either.
Sarah J. Maas
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I foster a lot. Not humans, animals.
Bellamy Young
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In fact, the American Mastodon vanished around thirteen thousand years ago. Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided with the spread of modern humans and, increasingly, is understood to have been a result of it. In this sense, the crisis Cuvier discerned just beyond the edge of recorded history was us.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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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.
Tom Stoppard
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The transmissibility of avian viruses may increase as the viruses adapt to humans.
B. R. Hayden
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One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
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The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.
Terence McKenna
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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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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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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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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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I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.
E. Lockhart
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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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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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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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The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
Ellie Goulding
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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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I believe that every human being has mental challenges.
Sandra Bullock
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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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I think it is disgraceful. I think it is completely disgusting that you've got a candidate for prime minster who seems to think that human beings are bargaining chips.
Nicola Sturgeon
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I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.
Mother Teresa
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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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Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
Alexandru C. Cuza