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Humans Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back…
- There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes…
- Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their…
- Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of…
- To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens…
- When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
- The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and…
- Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.
- ... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
- Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in…
- Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
- People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight…
- The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms…
- Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.
- Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to…
More Humans Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
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- 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