Humans Quotes · Page 237

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

— Ron Silver

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius…

— Igor Stravinsky

I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to…

— Cornel West

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

— Laura Miller

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

— Napoleon Hill

I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

— Jamie Dimon

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

— Pete Townshend

The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race

— Hugo Rahner

MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists,…

— Ambrose Bierce

We took out the safe haven in Afghanistan, but now there is, undoubtedly, a larger safe haven and we must rise to…

— Martin O'Malley

It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the…

— Marshall McLuhan

The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn’t have some redeemable qualities. Even the…

— Steve Carell

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Some sort of creativity is within everybody; I think that's just a part of the human spirit. I think there's no human…

— Audra McDonald

Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible…

— Muriel Lester

In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch…

— Muriel Barbery

Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But…

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed…

— Michael Crichton

As evangelical Christians, we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel…

— Francis Schaeffer

...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…

— Peter Singer

There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of…

— Hannah Arendt

“My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call “belief”) play a poor, secondary role in human decisions;…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Symphonies can generate a tremendous amount of sounds, beauty, and emotion. That is part of their human feel and sweetness. Keyboards, on…

— Yanni

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

— Margaret Clarkson

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

— Ray Kurzweil

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

— Amy Grant

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

— Erich Fromm

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

— Albert Einstein

That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

— Morgan Freeman

In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from…

— Paul Ryan

Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the…

— Peter L. Bernstein

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

— Jaron Lanier

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

— Elvis Presley

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

— Shirin Ebadi

Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.

— Christian Wiman

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of…

— Gregory Maguire

Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development.

— Michael Fox

Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.

— Amartya Sen

The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength…

— Thomas Jefferson