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Human Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that…
- Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous…
- Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human…
- The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV…
- Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.
- The white race is the cancer of human history.
- The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of…
- To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.
- Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization…
- A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the…
- Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my…
- I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
- Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.
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