Human Quotes

I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?

There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.

Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.

When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions.

A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.

Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is undermined.

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.

American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world.

There is no substitute for love and caring and compassion and human beings helping one another.

We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all.

I was somewhat confused when senator [Bernie] Sanders said, well, you know, Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign, they're part of the establishment.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

Does John Kerry have to give them [Iran] every little thing? You'll pass some sanctions for human rights and missiles, and I'll grudgingly sign on.

But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.

The entire human race faced a singularity when one small group discovered, ooh, technology. We can live a different way. Eventually, that spelled the death of the old way of life.

Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.

We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.