Humans Quotes · Page 320

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

“I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very…

— Karen Traviss

Perfection does not exist. It's more important to be happy with the human being you are.

— Talisa Soto

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

— Anonymous

Take time everyday to shift from immersion in human-centric thinking to ecoexperience.

— Selena Fox

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

— Taylor Caldwell

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

— Camille Paglia

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

— John Fowles

I'm a human being, just like everybody else. I'm up some days and down others. Some days, I just refuse comment. If…

— Ted Turner

We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood…

— Mohsin Hamid

I am inspired by honest people who don't cheat others. To me the famous are those who are kind to fellow human…

— Fauja Singh

I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to…

— H. P. Lovecraft

There is this arrogant feeling of being stronger than human. Humans are weak. They submit to their emotions, and vampires do not.…

— Richard Sammel

Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof…

— Allen Ginsberg

Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is…

— Seth Godin

I think I would just get bored to be honest. Ask any human being if they want to stay in exactly the…

— Doc Brown

New York has become almost a third-world country. When I was growing up it was mostly a Euro-American country. And it wasn't…

— Grace Lee Boggs

The inner throne of man is both what the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of Lucifer are after. And when this…

— Eric Ludy

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools…

— Helen Keller

Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If…

— Henry David Thoreau

Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of…

— Alan Lightman

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then…

— Henry A. Wallace

Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which…

— Chuck Klosterman

What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature.…

— Charles Krauthammer

I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human…

— Ringo Starr

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

— Leon Trotsky

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

— Geoffrey Miller

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

— Charles Mengel Allen

We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human…

— Brian Greene

If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things…

— Steve Irwin

Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God…

— Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

The Tories’ major announcement was to scrap the Human Rights Act, because, and I quote, ‘people get very frustrated with human rights.’

— Tim Farron

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

— Idries Shah

It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.

— Joe Dunthorne

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is…

— Ron Currie Jr

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

— Joseph Henry

All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human…

— Dalai Lama

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

— Carl Sagan