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Human Quotes by Mark Twain
- There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish…
- There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
- Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is…
- Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
- I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can…
- To eat is human, to digest, divine
- It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
- The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It…
- Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have…
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost…
- India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand…
- It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the…
- I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in…
- We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
- What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.
- The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression…
- The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.
- In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . .…
- Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves…
- It is your human environment that makes climate
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — 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
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow
- 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… — Steve Carell