Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement…

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a…

— Fernando Pessoa

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

— Abraham Lincoln

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we…

— Elie Wiesel

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.

— Matthew Heywood

It's a lot of fun to get in there and test yourself out against another human being that wants to punch your lights out,…

— Matt Mitrione

Surely human can do what he wants but he can't want what he wants.

— Erdem

“A saint is a human being who neither wants nor needs to hurt you.”

— Judith Fitzgerald

“I was a human being, and had a human being's wants: I must not linger where there was nothing to supply them.”

— Charlotte Brontë

No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it.

— Jonathan Kozol

Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

— Elie Wiesel

I think each human being wants to make their mark on the world in whatever way they can, and maybe everyone has a slight…

— Marina and the Diamonds

Every human always wants more. We're never satisfied. True happiness doesn't come until we're fully satisfied with what we have.

— Anonymous

In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class…

— James Henry Hammond

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

— Natasha Tsakos