Human Quotes

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.

My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we show affection, the poor animal also respond to us.

No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.

So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die.

Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.

The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.

There are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings.

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Big government squashes the human spirit

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.

I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age.

There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet.

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.

There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.

A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever.

I think that this necessity to travel, to see, it's part of human nature.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.

The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.

Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

I think the human spirit is a real powerful spirit. It has no limits and it has no ends. And I hate to see it put in any kind of box - pink or green.

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.