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Human Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out…
- The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
- Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt.…
- There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred…
- Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way…
- The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.
- Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting…
- Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing,…
- I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in…
- Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.
- The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects.
- Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically…
- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,…
- Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe,…
- English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English…
- Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing…
- Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in…
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
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein
- 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 jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin