Human Quotes - page 9

The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. (Alfred Kinsey)
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? View quote
Philip Roth
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. View quote
Bayard Rustin
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it. View quote
Gertrude Stein
All media are extensions of some human faculty -- psychic or physical. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. View quote
Steve Jobs
The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against. View quote
Vanessa L. Williams
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. View quote
Yevgeny Zamyatin
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. (Joseph Addison)
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. View quote
Joseph Addison
I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully. View quote
George W. Bush
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. View quote
Steve Biko
In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt. View quote
Tacitus
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Consideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good. View quote
Morarji Desai
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. View quote
Anaïs Nin
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program... (Poul Anderson)
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. View quote
Willa Cather
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. View quote
Willa Cather
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. View quote
Coretta Scott King
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. View quote
Abraham Maslow