Humans Quotes · Page 311

Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone.

— Courtney Summers

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone…

— Tony Curtis

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.

— David Abram

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

— Sarah Kay

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does…

— Djuna Barnes

Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities…

— Alex Shakar

I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and…

— Anne Royall

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for…

— Andy Goldsworthy

There are a lot of wrong reasons to do a remake, but there are some good ones... I think it's human nature,…

— Joel Kinnaman

If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human…

— Edward Gibbon

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human…

— Clarence Darrow

I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored…

— Janet Jackson

I think on all the debate on immigration, and all of that, the class of person that should be given the benefit…

— Preston Manning

Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not…

— Michael Anti

Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what makes life…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself…

— James Thurber

This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights…

— Cesar Chavez

LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to…

— Stanislav Grof

Maybe the realisation of the full human potential is the utopian thing. Maybe that is our collective struggle, is to find a…

— Chris Pine

Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.

— Roger Ebert

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

I guess I'm an actor - just human behaviour's just fascinating to me. I mean, I'd like to be.

— Rachel McAdams

Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.

— Dolores Huerta

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

— B. C. Forbes

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us…

— Philipp Meyer

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

— Epictetus

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

— Judith Martin

India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources

— Rahul Gandhi

When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

— Cesar Chavez

It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.

— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

— Mark Twain

I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I…

— Benazir Bhutto

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any…

— Muhammad Yunus

“Humans do not create, we pro-create from that which The Creator has already created.”

— Atom Tate