I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
~By Marie Curie ~
If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
~By Harold Bloom ~
Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.
~By John Yoo ~
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
~By Lewis Carroll ~
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.
~By Norman Spinrad ~
Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
~By Ornette Coleman ~
My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other.
~By Donna Leon ~
There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.
~By Mike Figgis ~
No human creature can give orders to love.
~By George Sand ~
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
~By William Gibson ~
Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.
~By Goran Persson ~
Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.
~By Connie Mack ~
It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.
~By Chaim Potok ~
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.
~By Tran Duc Luong ~
Is the human race a universal constructor?
~By David Deutsch ~
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.
~By Charlie Dent ~
I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.
~By Chely Wright ~
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
~By Pope John XXIII ~
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
~By Raymond Hull ~
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Every human must take responsibility for his actions.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Many after-dinner speakers remind us that to err is human.
~By Frances Rodman ~
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
~By Ben Okri ~
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.
~By Donald Berwick ~
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
~By Edmund Waller ~
I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!
~By Sheri S. Tepper ~
I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.
~By Leslie Banks ~
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
~By Elvis Costello ~
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
~By John B. S. Haldane ~
I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.
~By Frank Bruno ~
I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
~By Horace Mann ~
It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.
~By Michael Crichton ~
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?
~By William Gaddis ~
A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
~By Martin Buber ~
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
~By William Arthur Ward ~
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
~By Maria Mitchell ~
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
~By Angelina Grimke ~
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
~By Charles Edison ~
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
~By Brent Scowcroft ~
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
~By Pir Vilayat Khan ~
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
~By Guru Nanak ~
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
~By Dave Barry ~
We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.
~By John L. Phillips ~
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
~By Luis Barragan ~
If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.
~By Morarji Desai ~
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
~By Walter Pater ~
Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
~By Georg Brandes ~
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
~By Henry Clay ~
I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
~By J. D. Salinger ~
She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.
~By Mary Leakey ~
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
~By Hilaire Belloc ~
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
~By William Sloane Coffin, Jr. ~
What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
~By Nathan Deal ~
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
~By Jodie Foster ~
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~By Graham Greene ~
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
~By Aung San Suu Kyi ~
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
~By Wilhelm Reich ~
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
~By Taslima Nasrin ~
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.
~By Daryl Hannah ~
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
~By Al Franken ~
A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
~By Henry Winkler ~
We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.
~By Justin Sane ~
The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
~By Emma Goldman ~
I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.
~By Robert Winston ~
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
~By George Soros ~
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
~By Alexander Chase ~
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
~By Frank Borman ~
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
~By Ruth Benedict ~
It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.
~By Joe Slovo ~
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
~By Hippocrates ~
Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.
~By Robert Barany ~
This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents, we all live in the same world.
~By Marc Forne Molne ~
Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.
~By William Hull ~
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
~By Franz Grillparzer ~
I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
~By Ingrid Bergman ~
One of the most secure markets in the world is human nature, few understand it, all have it.
~By Jason Zebehazy ~
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
~By Caleb Carr ~
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
~By Margaret Chase Smith ~
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
~By Mackenzie Astin ~
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
~By Steven Biko ~
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