Humans Quotes

20546 Humans quotes by 7441 unique authors

I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive… — Naoki Higashida
Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a… — Edwin S. Shneidman
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. — Nelson Mandela
The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return. — Maria Edgeworth
If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other,… — Mikhail Bakunin
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… — James A. Baldwin
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… — James A. Baldwin
When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men. — Simone de Beauvoir
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal… — Simone de Beauvoir
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone de Beauvoir
No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned… — Hugo Black
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics. — Franz Boas
Human beings are curious by nature. — Aristotle
Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being. — Lydia M. Child
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer… — Shirley Chisholm
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized… — John Henrik Clarke
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. — Eldridge Cleaver
...but we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so… — Hillary Clinton
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far… — Betty Friedan
Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights. — Dick Gregory
When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in… — John Howard Griffin
So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from… — Edith Hamilton
The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world. — Hu Shih
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves. — Elbert Hubbard
Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race. — John Oliver Killens

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