Human Quotes - page 3

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. (Iris Murdoch)
In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.
Kiran Desai
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Gloria Steinem
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
James Baldwin
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al Franken
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
William Howard Taft
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
Václav Havel
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. (Walter Bagehot)
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Arthur C. Clarke
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
Havelock Ellis
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
Leonhard Euler
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. (François Mauriac)
Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Ivan Illich
Doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know lessen human beings of which they know nothing.
Voltaire
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle