Humans Quotes · Page 247

According to deontology it is wrong to kill an innocent human being, period.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of…

— Benjamin Whichcote

Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.

— Randy Alcorn

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

— Michio Kaku

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

— Albert Einstein

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

— Alanis Morissette

I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a…

— Elliott Smith

Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots…

— Laozi

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because…

— Colin Farrell

What was the worst thing [making Twiligh]? Playing the part where you can't get hurt and you can't die because there's no…

— Robert Pattinson

If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good…

— Francis Schaeffer

To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried…

— Sourav Ganguly

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be…

— Bill Frist

I wanted to portray a newly democratized, enclosed society. I wanted to show how extraordinarily fluid people are in their embrace of…

— James Ellroy

As long as we can be just the sidelight, the side issue, issues that deal with human beings, both men and women…

— Eleanor Smeal

exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and…

— Anonymous

As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become…

— Anonymous

We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like…

— George Bernard Shaw

I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding…

— Bruno Walter

I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can…

— E. P. Thompson

I got the bad press and the blogging and the email threats because people really didn't understand. They thought I was anti-gay.…

— Patricia Mauceri

A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response…

— Evelyn Underhill

What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most…

— Stephen Hawking

Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

— Alvin Toffler

People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also…

— Blanka Vlasic

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

— Michel de Montaigne

Show yourself more human than critical, and then your Pleasure will increase.

— Domenico Scarlatti

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

— Orson Scott Card

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

— George Orwell

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

— Austin O'Malley

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.

— Oscar Micheaux

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside…

— Eric Berne

Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.

— Viggo Mortensen

You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human.

— Bill Watterson

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Humans remain entirely atmosphere dependent, so there is no choice but to respond to extreme climatic behaviour and its many effects.

— Peter Garrett