« All Humans Quotes · P.J. O'Rourke's Page
Humans Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human…
- Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on…
- Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement…
- Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.
- It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.
- I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the…
- Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
- We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
- Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons…
- You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut…
- Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over…
- The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population…
- To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work…
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