Humans Quotes
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The transmissibility of avian viruses may increase as the viruses adapt to humans.
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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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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.
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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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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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Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
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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.
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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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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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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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I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.
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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'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
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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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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.
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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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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
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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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Human beings crave freedom at their core.
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What this also suggests, intriguingly, is that the task of translating or writing literary novels cannot be broken into parts and done by a succession of different humans either—not by wikis, nor crowdsourcing, nor ghostwriters. Stability of point of view and consistency of style are too important. What’s truly strange, then, is the fact that we do seem to make a lot of art this way
