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Human Quotes by Daniel Quinn
- If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter…
- During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way, it's…
- The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize…
- The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is…
- [T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the…
- The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and…
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong