Human Quotes - page 15

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies. View quote
Aldous Huxley
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' View quote
Aldous Huxley
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. View quote
Joseph Conrad
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. (Thomas Edison)
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. View quote
Noam Chomsky
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. View quote
Voltaire
I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. View quote
Bjarne Stroustrup
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties. View quote
Jef Raskin
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. View quote
Milan Kundera
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and religion. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. View quote
Daniel De Leon
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. View quote
Albert Einstein
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. View quote
Albert Einstein
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficiallyinfluence the lot of mankind. View quote
Albert Einstein
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson