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Human Quotes by Gore Vidal
- A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
- To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.
- It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge.…
- In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support…
- To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
- It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human…
- Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not…
- The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human…
- There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
- Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.
- Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter…
- Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
- Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.
- It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely…
- I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people,…
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