Humans Quotes · Page 196

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or…

— Gloria Estefan

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other…

— John Locke

I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition.

— Forest Whitaker

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.

— Richard Siken

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

— Charles A. Murray

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference…

— Anonymous

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

— Flannery O'Connor

We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to…

— Wendell Berry

with the spring a sort of inspiration is wakened in the most prosaic of us. The same spirit of change that thrills…

— Marah Ellis Ryan

When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the…

— Alexander Hamilton

Historically, I guess that's how science fiction works: you start by using aliens to think the unthinkable — and then, eventually, another…

— Samuel R. Delany

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this,…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in…

— Herbert Hoover

Even though most people who reject Christianity treat it as a refuge for enemies of reason, the truth is that there may…

— Ronald H. Nash

I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the…

— Nikki Giovanni

Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key…

— Muhammad Yunus

There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the…

— Bentley Little

You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path - and…

— Neale Donald Walsch

To those of us who are not theologians, does it matter whether a thing is ordained or merely allowed? Are events that…

— Elisabeth Elliot

To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or…

— Dorothy Dunnett

The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by…

— James Madison

To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout…

— David Hawkins

The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once…

— Federico Mayor Zaragoza

A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events…

— David Abram

The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and…

— Michel de Montaigne

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

— Jerry Saltz

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at…

— Paddy Considine

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

— Gary L. Francione

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

— Vladimir Putin

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

— Franz Kafka

“our bodies must work pretty well, or there wouldn’t be so many humans on the planet.”

— Ina May Gaskin

In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.

— Sylvia Earle

Before our race, nationality, or religion, we are all human beings. Let's celebrate our differences and not fight over them.

— Rosie Fellner

With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

— Steven Pinker

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

— Aldous Huxley

Psychotherapy -- A long, drawn out process consisting of subtle probings of the human mind, whereby women are blamed for all of…

— Marc Cooper

The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created.

— David Spangler

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

— Edward P. Jones