Upon Human Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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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
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.
— Nelson Mandela
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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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
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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: