Humans Quotes · Page 440

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own…

— Benjamin Cardozo

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

— Robert Gober

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

— Ruth Benedict

Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is…

— Roger Ebert

Every human emits unconscious vocal undertones that determine who the leader is in the room.

— Nick Morgan

Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that…

— Max Brooks

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

— Anonymous

Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.

— Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it…

— Nicole Kidman

Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in…

— Harold S. Kushner

Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there…

— Paulo Coelho

Although an impressive amount of business and social interaction takes place over the telephone and fax, by e-mail, or in person today,…

— Rosalie Maggio

Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily…

— Philip Kitcher

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great…

— Woodrow Wilson

There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t…

— Haruki Murakami

Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted…

— Rebecca Goldstein

I've met Obama a few times, and I think Obama's a quality human being, but I think that he finds himself in…

— Shepard Fairey

The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

To be perfectly honest, Christ Pratt is one of the greatest human beings I've ever met in my entire life. He really…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge…

— Max Born

For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something…

— Vera Brittain

The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

— Helen Fisher

We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better.

— Kevin Maney

[Sex] is of real interest to every human being and so why gloss over it, and it's fun, it's interesting, it has…

— Khushwant Singh

For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very…

— Thomas Merton

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

— Gerda Lerner

There is a hunger to see the human presence acted out. As long as that need remains, people will find a way…

— Zelda Fichandler

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

— Toni Morrison

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a…

— Terence McKenna

It's hard enough to be alive and human, without the additional burden of being me.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of…

— Cass Sunstein

One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.

— Nan Fairbrother

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

— Seymour Papert

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

— Anonymous

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

— Ralph Abernathy

It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being...until ye change the world of man into the world of…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

— John Shelby Spong