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Humans Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
- I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all…
- Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
- You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
- Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come…
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted…
- The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or…
- Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
- Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage…
- Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing…
- We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can…
- He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a…
- Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to…
- We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn’t a human being. But if you are a lover of books as…
- Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not…
- The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has…
- When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined…
- Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term…
- I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
- Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I…
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