Humans Quotes · Page 195

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

— D. A. Carson

Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.

— Samuel R. Delany

Whatever you think of Romney and his politics, as a human being there's none better. As a man of integrity, man of…

— Rush Limbaugh

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

— Federica Montseny

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

— Charles Frankel

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

— Colin Wilson

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy…

— Amory Lovins

If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has…

— Rabindranath Tagore

People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It…

— Howard Zinn

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic. Ask the questions that will…

— Tony Robbins

She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

— E. F. Schumacher

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and…

— Saul Bellow

The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we…

— Francis Bacon

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want…

— Noam Chomsky

Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a…

— Dally Messenger

What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that…

— Jerry Garcia

In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and…

— Oscar Wilde

One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former…

— Marq de Villiers

This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or…

— Joseph Story

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

— Walter Lippmann

“We humans kill and murder every species and still we claim to be the peace lovers.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

— Thomas Carlyle

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I…

— Rosamund Pike

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

— Sherry Turkle

“Everyone who comes into our lives leaves their mark. That's how we grow, mature and evolve as humans. There's nothing wrong with…

— Giovanna Fletcher

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

— Simone Weil

I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

— David Batstone

No bra,” he said against her mouth. “Thank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever.

— Larissa Ione

I'd like to think humans have a stronger sense of justice than the random forces of nature do.

— Dan Wells

If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.

— David Attenborough

In the course of our eternal existence, we spend infinitely more time in the spirit world on the other side than we…

— Sylvia Browne

May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant

— Leonard Nimoy

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

— Satish Kumar

As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.

— Noam Chomsky

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

— Theodore Zeldin