Humans Quotes

20546 Humans quotes by 7441 unique authors

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging. — Niccolo Machiavelli
I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy. — Bill Maher
War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the… — Carl von Clausewitz
International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men… — J. William Fulbright
The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It's the only activity that gives me some hope… — J. William Fulbright
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent… — J. William Fulbright
The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the… — J. William Fulbright
Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace… — Ralph Bunche
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and… — Marian Wright Edelman
When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of course, be forms of intelligence… — Martin Rees
In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must be made to… — Unknown Author
The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a… — George Perkins Marsh
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,… — Victor Hugo
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help… — Erich Fromm
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of… — Alfred Russel Wallace
These phantoms speak with human voices . . . able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls of… — Charles Lindbergh
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of… — Franz Kafka
No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why… — Bobby Jones
Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it… — Arnold Haultain
To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural… — Alistair Cooke
Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is not in that… — Hans-Peter Durr
We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. — Barbara Jordan
When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people.… — David Korten
Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance,… — Eleanor Roosevelt

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