Human Quotes

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.

Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest

We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.

There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can well be that of a richer civilization, not its end.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

Human dignity is more precious than prestige.

I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.

If you will it, it is no dream

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.