Humans Quotes · Page 233

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

— Georges Bataille

No compassion will be tolerated for the Jews. We deny the Pope’s statement that there is but one human race. The Jews…

— Robert Ley

The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.

— Stephen Hawking

“As humans, it is in our nature to focus on picking ourselves up while the whole world falls apart.”

— Joshua Teya

In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother.

— Pope Benedict XVI

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human…

— Alfred Nobel

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

— Jose Saramago

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

— Haruki Murakami

Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy…

— John Muir

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from…

— Noam Chomsky

I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today…

— Dziga Vertov

When all the mysticism is stripped away, the people who comprise the government (the legislators, administrators, judges, and policemen), are guided by…

— Hans F. Sennholz

I think the Prime Minister is the first to acknowledge that Malaysia's still got some work to do. Just like the United…

— Barack Obama

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous…

— John Cowper Powys

The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy - it is already too late for that…

— Aldo Leopold

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and…

— David Suzuki

One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation…

— Charles Horton Cooley

There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must…

— Nelson Rockefeller

The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a…

— Leon Uris

If we are genuinely concerned about the environment and the fellow human beings, and want to end territorial disputes, war, crime, poverty,…

— Jacque Fresco

When I heard the book (Thomas Friedman's latest) was actually coming out, I started to worry. Among other things, I knew I…

— Matt Taibbi

There is little disagreement on our planet that the lives of most human beings could be improved immensely. Words pour out of…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the…

— Robert Anderson

Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe.…

— Jean Meslier

Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck.

— Claude C. Hopkins

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic…

— Walter Lippmann

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

— Larry Wall

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

— William Godwin

Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure...

— Rohinton Mistry

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

— Ken Robinson

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

— Ron Fournier

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

— Anonymous

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

— John Astin

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

— Huston Smith

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

— Max Bill

I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.

— Osamu Dazai

You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.

— Canibus

I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human.

— Tom Hiddleston

“Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.”

— Amit Kalantri

I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.

— Grimes