Humans Quotes · Page 457

Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name…

— William C. Brown

For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.

— Katha Pollitt

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

— David Whyte

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

— George Steiner

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to…

— Dag Hammarskjold

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

— Peter Jackson

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all…

— Jay Mohr

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most…

— Norman Cousins

When the state executes a member of the human family, it declares that person worthless, without possibility of redemption. As Christians, we…

— Doug Davidson

When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity…

— Omar Bongo

I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth…

— Delia Sherman

A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought…

— Alexander Hamilton

A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad…

— Seth Klarman

Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and…

— Hiromu Arakawa

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in…

— Sam Harris

Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take…

— Arthur W. Pink

If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at…

— Medard Boss

Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture.…

— Werner Herzog

The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance.…

— Ellen Ullman

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear…

— Charles Darwin

Donald Trump is not stupid. He knows exactly what he's saying. And he's just saying out there - I mean, forget about…

— Bassem Youssef

It is essential for evolution to become the central core of any educational system, because it is evolution, in the broad sense,…

— Julian Huxley

Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it.…

— Freeman Dyson

Human reason has the peculiar fate ... that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss ... but which it also cannot answer.

— Immanuel Kant

You have to remember that actors are human beings. Which is hard sometimes because they look so much better than human beings.

— Tina Fey

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original.

— George Bernard Shaw

The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.

— Jerome F. Lederer

When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been…

— Masahisa Goi

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

— Tom Peters

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If…

— Chuck Klosterman

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

— Jodie Foster

The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources…

— Alain de Botton

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

— Carl Sagan

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.

— Timothy McVeigh

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us...…

— T. S. Eliot

God . . . endowed [the human race] with capacity to attain to the inaccessible and invisible Supreme Good and behold it face to face . . .

— Pope Paul III

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe,…

— Ben Shahn