Human Quotes - page 10

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. (Ernest Hemingway)
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. View quote
Lynne Cheney
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. View quote
Jimmy Carter
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. View quote
Jimmy Carter
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. View quote
George Santayana
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. View quote
Ronald David Laing
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom. View quote
Margaret Drabble
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. View quote
Orson Welles
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. View quote
Margaret Fuller
The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abudance is human attention. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual. (Mikhail Bakunin)
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. View quote
Vittorio Alfieri
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. View quote
E. E. Cummings
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. View quote
Howard H. Aiken
...there must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. View quote
Ralph Ellison
The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way. View quote
Elvis Presley
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. View quote
James Joseph Sylvester
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important. View quote
Earl Warren
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. View quote
Edward Steichen
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. (Gregory Bateson)
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. View quote
George Orwell
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. View quote
George Orwell
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves. View quote
Leon Trotsky