Humans Quotes · Page 523

The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to…

— Karl Albrecht

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but…

— Ashley Montagu

In the struggle for the rights of the poor in Central America and other places where globalization is bringing its negative effects,…

— Thomas Gumbleton

All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,…

— Alexander Pope

As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of…

— Stephen Young

No, you have to talk first. You wanted to talk. It means you say something and I respond and you talk back…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism.…

— George Carlin

For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image…

— Ruth Bernhard

The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but…

— Peter Singer

Phury lit a blunt and eyed the sixteen cans of Aqua Net that were lined up on Butch and V's coffee table.…

— J.R. Ward

If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices,…

— Rod Dreher

Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal…

— Avicenna

Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent…

— Bertrand Russell

Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of…

— Parker J. Palmer

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in…

— David Whyte

One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For…

— Charles Horton Cooley

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face.…

— Wyclef Jean

The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as…

— Ani DiFranco

When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was…

— Tupac Shakur

Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green'…

— Murray Bookchin

It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature…

— Herman Melville

To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in…

— Aldous Huxley

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories,…

— David Lynch

Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced…

— Peter Singer

I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing…

— Abraham Maslow

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender…

— Nathaniel Branden

There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long…

— Dennis Weaver

I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the…

— Jonathan Littell

I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look…

— Richard Griffiths

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives…

— Steven Pinker

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost…

— Sam Raimi

The Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take…

— Patricia Ireland

You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all…

— Norma McCorvey

But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom…

— Anonymous

The biggest mistake people make is assuming that their dogs think like little humans, and that they can negotiate behavior with them,…

— Cesar Millan

Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release,…

— Michelle Alexander