Human Quotes

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.

Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.

The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.

Every human being is a designer

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

Part of being human is having a sense of humor.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

We come to feel as we behave.

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.

If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human rights abuses.

Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.

Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?

It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.

I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes. Everything is supposed to make sense. Everything is supposed to be logical.

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

I don't have a 10-octave range. No human being has a 10-octave range.

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.

The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal parts of our lives.

The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.

On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings.

I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.

But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.

Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings that uses the fullness of their talents for the highest and the very best.