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Humans Quotes by Adrienne Rich
- Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the…
- There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity…
- We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly…
- I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
- Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.
- In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the…
- The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human…
- The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs…
- The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by…
- Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has…
- Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way…
More Humans 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