Human Quotes
22022 quotes by 8592 authors
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We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely…
— Julian Assange
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
— Mackenzie Astin
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first…
— David Attenborough
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that…
— David Attenborough
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
— Margaret Atwood
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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all…
— Margaret Atwood
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Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
— Margaret Atwood
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You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
— Margaret Atwood
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come…
— Margaret Atwood
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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted…
— Margaret Atwood
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea…
— Sri Aurobindo
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little…
— Jane Austen
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of…
— Jane Austen
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's…
— Diane Ackerman
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
— Dan Aykroyd
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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
— Charles Babbage
Who Wrote These Human Quotes
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