Humans Quotes · Page 384

Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.

— Peggy Noonan

Would you like to do something good for the future of the human race; well, start killing some of its powerful members.

— William C. Brown

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living…

— Johann Georg Hamann

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

— Seth Klarman

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

— P. D. James

No human being...is ever conceived outside God's will or ever conceived apart from God's image. Life is a gift from God created…

— Anonymous

God is life; and in that life which is God there are no years. ... The human sense of life is not…

— Joel S. Goldsmith

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure.

— Henri Matisse

So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to…

— Carl Jung

We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of…

— Tullian Tchividjian

The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human…

— Edward Gibbon

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be…

— Blaise Pascal

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just…

— Rocco DiSpirito

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body…

— Bernard Tschumi

Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our…

— James D. Watson

I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All…

— Martin Luther

There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once.…

— Bill Vaughan

Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute…

— Timothy Leary

I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even…

— Scott Snyder

The romance of circumvention is one of the most destructive forces at work in our society. The American Idol freeway to greatness,…

— Daniel Gillies

The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout…

— Sterling W Sill

I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and…

— Amber Hollibaugh

America's egalitarian mandate reflects the liberality of the creator, and thus countermands, by divine witness, all feudal and aristocratic structures. It also…

— Forrest Church

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

— Paul Bloom

Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.

— Buzz Aldrin

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.…

— Jimmy Wales

The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge.

— Lee Kuan Yew

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that…

— Brian Wilson

A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with…

— Charles Stross

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

— Isabelle Eberhardt

I've learned enough things the hard way to know we humans can make a difference.

— Richard Patrick

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

— Cecil B. DeMille

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

— Monty Woolley

I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.

— Matt Nathanson

Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."

— Dennis Miller

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

— Lena Dunham

Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.

— George Holland

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

— Tony Abbott

If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last.

— Frederick Buechner