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Humans Quotes by Orson Scott Card
- No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.
- Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the…
- Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two…
- There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease…
- The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
- Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever…
- There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the…
- This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to…
- I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the…
- Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good…
- You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die…
- No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you…
- there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human…
- Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?
- Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
- Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He…
- But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind.…
- Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation…
- That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and…
- Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your…
- As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons,…
- It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in…
- What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a…
- If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network…
- Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by…
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- 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