Human Quotes

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings.

Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.

I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.

What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute.

Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face, Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand And taught my doubting heart to understand That which has puzzled all the human race.

God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes them, in the face of fire and flood, rise to the meaning of true brotherhood.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

Is human love the growth of the human will ?

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.

A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book and film [Room] are about "the triumph of the human spirit.

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race.

... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and our bodies have a function.

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

In order to survive, the human race must defend itself.

From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.

Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

I'm pretty mutable as a human being.

In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

Wine enlivens the human soul.

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.

Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?" "Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.

I cry at the end of every episode of "Girls." I'm just so overwhelmed by the truthfulness with which [Lena Dunham] conveys human nature.

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.