Humans Quotes · Page 213

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

— Albert Einstein

Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need…

— David Simon

I’m in love with everyone I’ve ever met in one way or another. I’m just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human…

— Edie Sedgwick

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

— Martin Luther

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

— Kenneth Burke

It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.

— Arthur Miller

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

— Cullen Hightower

Every sort of seven billion human being have to think about the well-being of humanity.

— Dalai Lama

[The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot…

— Laura Benanti

I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play…

— H. A. L. Fisher

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as…

— Albert Schweitzer

The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every…

— Frederick Lenz

Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all…

— Jonathan Sacks

Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less…

— Dalai Lama

We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade,…

— George W. Bush

We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are…

— Anonymous

Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or…

— Charles Spurgeon

We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For…

— Ronald Reagan

We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do.…

— Leonard Cohen

Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself…

— Bill Nighy

I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my…

— Albert Einstein

That is certainly the point: when the human species was born, on the African savanna, life was pretty good; we could live…

— Kirkpatrick Sale

If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.

— Ingvar Kamprad

The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together we're soon gonna start figuring out…

— Frank Darabont

Robots touch something deeply human within us. For me, robots are all about people.

— Cynthia Breazeal

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

— Shakti Gawain

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

— Thomas Jefferson

The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows…

— Michael Gazzaniga

We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation…

— Edmund Burke

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other…

— Orison Swett Marden

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

— Aldo Leopold

A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

— Julius Streicher

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

— Orson Scott Card

Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to…

— Johnny Weir

The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior…

— James Cook

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

— John Kenneth Galbraith