Humans Quotes · Page 242

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

— Frank Herbert

The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the…

— Henry Cavill

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a…

— Maya Angelou

North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.

— Shirin Ebadi

We're all humans living on this tiny little rock, floating through space at, like, thousands of miles an hour. We should all…

— Finn Balor

Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.

— Paul Reps

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

With every passing year we discover more evidence to support Darwin's revolutionary hypothesis that the cognitive and emotional lives of animals differ…

— Roger Fouts

I feel that faith and feminism have a deep relationship to each other and that both are responses to the deep human…

— Helen LaKelly Hunt

I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was,…

— Terry Gross

Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is…

— Paul Tillich

When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie…

— George A. Romero

The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very…

— Chris Crutcher

The relationship between government and art must necessarily be a delicate one. It would not be appropriate for the government to try…

— Jimmy Carter

The ability of human beings to be creative depends fundamentally on the health and well-being of our biosphere, the few kilometres of…

— Freeman Patterson

The German huts, open on every side to the eye of indiscretion or jealousy, were a better safeguard of conjugal fidelity than…

— Edward Gibbon

We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our…

— Graham Hancock

Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to…

— Ronald Reagan

Hiding behind such sacred terms as human rights and distributive justice, politicians and intellectuals alike have perpetrated a gargantuan ruse on humankind:…

— Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only…

— Anonymous

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one…

— Adrienne Rich

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

— Gene Stratton-Porter

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke…

— Jonah Goldberg

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

— Christian Dior

Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.

— Robert Smithson

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss.

— Tom Robbins

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

— Mary Robinson

Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to…

— Jon Krakauer

Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or…

— Anwar Sadat

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

— Phylicia Rashad

“I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.”

— Belinda Jeffrey

A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow