Humans Quotes · Page 400

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

— Bob Brown

If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic…

— Ai Weiwei

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human…

— Susan B. Anthony

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

— Erica Jong

Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.

— Rajneesh

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Listening to the data is important... but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large…

— Steve Lohr

There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression.…

— John Towner Williams

Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and…

— Richard Kadrey

I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense.…

— Stephanie Klein

The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light…

— Marilynne Robinson

I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms…

— Patti Smith

FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lost.' We have one major event that happens that…

— Sonya Walger

Humans treat animals as things that exist as means to human ends. That's morally wrong. Sexism promotes the idea that women are…

— Gary L. Francione

Before we go there and set up greenhouses, dance clubs, and falafel stands, let's make sure that, in some subtle form that…

— David Grinspoon

An important distinction can be made between religion and spirituality. Religion [is] concerned with faith in the claims to salvation of one…

— Dalai Lama

Slowly ... the truth is dawningupon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

Yes. The original argument is defective. Substitute the word 'male' for 'gay,' and you'll see the flaw: 'Male people cannot be normal.…

— Marilyn vos Savant

Serious accidents are frequently blamed on "human error." Yet careful analysis of such situations shows that the design or installation of the…

— Donald A. Norman

The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.…

— Benito Mussolini

Advertising is not intended to brainwash you and make you go out and buy something; that's a real simple-minded way of criticizing…

— Mark Hosler

Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal…

— Robert Wright

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

— George Carlin

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

— George Orwell

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

— Herodotus

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised.

— Jai Rodriguez

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and…

— Wangari Maathai

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

— Saadi

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

— Desmond Tutu

Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?

— Michio Kaku

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

— Stephen Hawking

The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.

— Naum Gabo

There are many ups and downs in everyone's life and when you're an actor usually you're a very sensitive human being.

— Melanie Griffith

Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

— Calvin Coolidge

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

— Dalai Lama

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

— Confucius

Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head…

— Alex Gaskarth