Flesh and blood Quote by Jack Henry Abbott

“It’s only human,' you cry in defense of any depravity, reaching the stage of self-abasement where you seek to make the concept 'human' mean…

— Ayn Rand

“I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even…

— Emil Cioran

“But the greatest mistake is in believing that we are 'only human… ' We are human in expression but divine in creation and limitless…

— Eric Butterworth

“The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold…

— Martin Luther

“Ultimately, we lacked the courage to face up to our own true selves—our bare forms noble though petty, everything though nothing, almighty though powerless,…

— Sakyo Komatsu

“To be human is to be beautifully flawed”

— Eric Wilson

“Anybody can justify anything. It's what separates us from animals. It's a waste of time, though, isn't it-sitting around justifying when there's so much…

— John Brandon

“They are human, after all, and it is human nature to transform loss into a virtue. So that it might be lived with, so…

— Steven Erikson

“But are we human creatures as honest, kind, trustworthy as we at times are inclined to believe?”

— Lawrence G. Taylor

“Wasn’t I merely human, just a poor simple guy who had been drawn into doing things against my feelings that not even God would…

— Hermann Hesse

“I now know that deep within the human concept is something dark, selfish, and completely willing to do whatever is necessary to support the…

— Melissa West

“Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself…

— Augustine of Hippo