It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.
~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.
~By Michael Ondaatje ~
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 ~
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
~By Bjorn Ulvaeus ~
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
~By Alvin Ailey ~
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
~By Edward Hall ~
Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
~By Dean Koontz ~
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
~By Peter Gay ~
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
~By Annette Bening ~
We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.
~By Roger Wicker ~
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
~By Emma Goldman ~
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
~By Ivan Illich ~
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
~By Karl Kraus ~
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.
~By Hugh MacLennan ~
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.
~By Susan B. Anthony ~
Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.
~By Robert Shea ~
What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.
~By Tim Berners Lee ~
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
~By James Allen ~
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
~By Guru Nanak ~
These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
~By Patrick Macnee ~
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
~By May Sarton ~
I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner.
~By Jim Ryun ~
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
~By Vera Brittain ~
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
~By Olin Miller ~
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
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 ~
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
~By Moliere ~
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 ~
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
~By Thomas Mann ~
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
~By William Blake ~
This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
~By Sojourner Truth ~
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
~By Vittorio Alfieri ~
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
~By Ali Hoseini Khamenei ~
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
~By James Buchanan ~
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
~By Dorothy Canfield Fisher ~
I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
~By Alfred Adler ~
One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
~By Martin Buber ~
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.
~By Ricky Williams ~
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
~By John Erskine ~
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
War remains the decisive human failure.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
~By Cleveland Amory ~
The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.
~By Anita Roddick ~
Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.
~By Paul Berg ~
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
~By Octavio Paz ~
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
~By Jan Peter Balkenende ~
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
~By Studs Terkel ~
I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.
~By Bijou Phillips ~
I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.
~By Cordell Hull ~
Love other human beings as you would love yourself.
~By Ho Chi Minh ~
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
~By Carl Barks ~
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
~By Mordecai Wyatt Johnson ~
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
~By Kate Chopin ~
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
~By Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
Human requirements are the inspiration for art.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.
~By Morarji Desai ~
In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.
~By Abraham Kuyper ~
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.
~By Hun Sen ~
I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.
~By David Icke ~
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
~By Edmund Burke ~
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
~By Madame de Stael ~
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
~By Ralph Chaplin ~
The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
~By James Randi ~
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
~By Huston Smith ~
To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
~By Henry James ~
Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.
~By Michael Bolton ~
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.
~By Alan Lomax ~
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
~By Robert Bly ~
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."
~By T. S. Eliot ~
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
~By Desmond Tutu ~
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
~By Elizabeth Janeway ~
The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.
~By Ralph Peters ~
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
~By Giambattista Vico ~
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.
~By John Russell ~
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