Humans Quotes
20546 Humans quotes by 7441 unique authors
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Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.
— Basil Hume
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As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far…
— H. L. Mencken
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There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book…
— Alistair Cooke
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If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you…
— Payne Stewart
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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
— George Bernard Shaw
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We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because,…
— Vaclav Havel
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This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human…
— Tony Blair
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The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the…
— Rudy Giuliani
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It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
— Isaac Asimov
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If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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...So, take what's inside you and make big, bold choices. And for those who can't speak for themselves, use bold voices. And make friends and…
— Jamie Lee Curtis
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Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't…
— John Legend
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What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.
— Edward James Olmos
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As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what…
— Mother Teresa
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People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to…
— Mother Teresa
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Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We…
— Dalai Lama
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Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity.…
— Martin Sheen
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Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.
— E. O. Wilson
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Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
— Bertrand Russell
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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people…
— Margaret Chase Smith
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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical…
— Freeman Dyson
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There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to…
— Stephen Covey
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