Human Quotes

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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. — Edmund Burke
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. — Edmund Burke
The march of the human mind is slow. — Edmund Burke
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. — Abdallah II
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they… — Barbara Bush
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem… — Octavia Butler
On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other.… — Octavia Butler
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. — Samuel Butler
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends. — A. S. Byatt
On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces… — A. S. Byatt
Physical contact is a human necessity. — David Byrne
Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of… — Buzz Aldrin
The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims,… — Buzz Aldrin
I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. — Nicolas Cage
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding… — Tony Campolo
I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I… — Steve Carell
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. — Taylor Caldwell
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit… — John Calvin
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. — Italo Calvino

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