Human Quotes - page 20

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder. (Emma Thompson)
We are all different - but we share the same human spirit. Perhaps it's human nature that we adapt - and survive. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do. View quote
Stephen Hawking
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
But one cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose. View quote
Jean Anouilh
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. View quote
John Ruskin
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race. View quote
L. Neil Smith
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. View quote
Margaret Mead
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. View quote
Jimmy Wales
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang. (Morihei Ueshiba)
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. View quote
Adam Ferguson
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The science of pure mathematics ... may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. View quote
Elie Wiesel
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. View quote
Elie Wiesel
The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature. View quote
Jane Goodall
The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian have no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk. View quote
George S. Patton
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. (Antonin Artaud)
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. View quote
Henry Miller
Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species. View quote
William Godwin
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. View quote
William Gibson
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. View quote
E. M. Forster