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Humans Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.…
- Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country…
- The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as…
- Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock…
- Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
- The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And…
- I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against…
- Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to…
- Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
- What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we…
- On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for…
- Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an…
- Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just…
- The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings,…
- Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of…
- He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million…
- A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't.…
- Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal…
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