Human Quotes - page 95

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another. (Mark Twain)
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done. View quote
Mark Twain
Human pride is not worthwhile there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it. View quote
Mark Twain
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me. View quote
Mark Twain
Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech. View quote
Mark Twain
There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it. View quote
Mark Twain
...when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity. View quote
Mark Twain
All that I care to know is that a man is a human being that is enough for me he can't be any worse. View quote
Mark Twain
Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being ... ultimate reality is what we call God. View quote
R. S. Thomas
I don't want to be considered a hero. Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary. View quote
Miep Gies
Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home. (Tony Snow)
The chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life. View quote
Pentti Linkola
The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe. View quote
Pentti Linkola
How can anyone think so insanely that the human life has the same value and mankind, the same morality, independent of numbers? It is lucid to me that everytime a new child is born, the value of every human in world decreases slightly. It is obvious to me that the morality of the population explosion is wholly unlike than when man was a sparse, noble species in its beginning. View quote
Pentti Linkola
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. View quote
Robert Orben
Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution... [they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity... [we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution, where Parliament exerted its will over the King... it was not the sort of Revolution that France's was...'Liberty, equality, fraternity' – they forgot obligations and duties I think. And then of course the fraternity went missing for a long time. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers' feelings. View quote
Richard Stallman
Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, Have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence, That the heavens owe them some recognition: That they arise the stronger the more they are beaten down Is hardly the result of common virtues. View quote
Pierre Corneille
Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the maniaWhich insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way. View quote
Friedrich Hölderlin
All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- a sustained effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings. View quote
Barack Obama
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty. View quote
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it. View quote
Rudolf Bultmann