Humans Quotes · Page 373

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.

— Anonymous

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

— Desmond Tutu

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

— Teresa of Avila

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

— Maxine Greene

The 'Church' is ... catholic because her communion embraces the whole human race.

— Pope Francis

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

— Albert Ellis

The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.

— Anonymous

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or…

— Adrienne Rich

The report [by a UN commission on Darfur] demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of…

— Kofi Annan

Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the…

— Anonymous

People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at…

— Norman Myers

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also…

— Octavio Paz

I did a film recently in the Republic of Georgia [upcoming 'Halo of Stars'] which was based on a long poem written…

— Lily Collins

This love was tricky...was it simply better somehow? Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of…

— Stephenie Meyer

There are already people en route to join this peaceful, prayerful, nonviolent exercise of our human, treaty, constitutional and civil rights, which…

— Chase Iron Eyes

I think some dogs may like the attention of being dressed up by their humans because they interpret it as affection, but…

— Cesar Millan

The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in…

— Dan Rather

We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts. We can and we…

— Jane Goodall

The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it.…

— Anonymous

The man and the woman are not really two separate entities, but the personality of the man needs the supporting qualities of…

— Rajneesh

The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis

The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities.…

— Timothy Leary

Golden eagles don't mate with bald eagles, deer don't mate with antelope, gray wolves don't mate with red wolves. Just look at…

— Russell Means

This idea holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead-because ideas are having sex with each…

— Matt Ridley

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the…

— Igor Sikorsky

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

— Noam Chomsky

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human…

— Jodi Picoult

Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.

— Rebecca West

Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.

— Freeman Dyson

Respect is more than giving consideration of one's feelings. It is showing common courtesy for another human being.

— Tom Baker

In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.

— Enrique Penalosa

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

— Albert Einstein

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

— Simone Elkeles

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.

— Denis Dutton

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

— Seth Godin

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing,

— Alison Gopnik

If humans were to model the lifestyle displayed by healthy community of cells , our societies and our planet would be more…

— Bruce H. Lipton