Upon Human Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

• 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
• The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson
• I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to… — Albert Einstein
• The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that such ecstasy remains… — Larry Levis
• The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders,… — Henry Grady Weaver
• Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings. — Kenneth Clark
• Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human… — Paul Brunton
• As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance. — Nelson Mandela
• In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of… — Noah Webster
• These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to… — Simon Greenleaf
• The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. What does that mean, ‘outrages upon… — George W. Bush
• Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human… — Mark Twain
• Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon… — Hannah Arendt
• I do not look upon human beings as good or bad. — R. Buckminster Fuller
• True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station. — Henry David Thoreau
• Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong. — Richard Jefferies

Who Wrote These Upon Human Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 18 Upon Human Quotes as follows:

• 1 Upon Human Quote by Dick Gregory
• 1 Upon Human Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Upon Human Quote by Albert Einstein
• 1 Upon Human Quote by Larry Levis
• 1 Upon Human Quote by Henry Grady Weaver
• 1 Upon Human Quote by Kenneth Clark
• 1 Upon Human Quote by Paul Brunton
• 1 Upon Human Quote by Nelson Mandela
• 1 Upon Human Quote by Noah Webster
• 1 Upon Human Quote by Simon Greenleaf
• 1 Upon Human Quote by George W. Bush
• 1 Upon Human Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Upon Human Quote by Hannah Arendt
• 1 Upon Human Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller
• 1 Upon Human Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Upon Human Quote by Richard Jefferies