Human Quotes - page 21

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. (Gary Becker)
PIG, n. An animal ('Porcus omnivorus') closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. View quote
Edward Sapir
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence. View quote
Emil Cioran
The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity... Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore. View quote
Emil Cioran
Human perception is literally incarnation. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
In Tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. View quote
Maya Angelou
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. View quote
Maya Angelou
There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories. (Stanley Kubrick)
As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me. View quote
Jonas Salk
To err is human, but it feels divine. View quote
Mae West
Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. View quote
George W. Bush
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. View quote
E. O. Wilson
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval. View quote
Peter Singer
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. View quote
Peter Medawar
I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong. View quote
Morarji Desai
One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life. View quote
Morarji Desai
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me and then show me the place where he was hanged. (Lawrence Durrell)
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. View quote
Anthony de Mello
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. View quote
William Temple
Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing - desire. View quote
Willa Cather
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. View quote
Willa Cather