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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
~By Aristotle ~


The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
~By M. H. Abrams ~


We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
~By Abdoulaye Wade ~


It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
~By Margaret Fuller ~


Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
~By James Cromwell ~


How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
~By Sylvia Plath ~


What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~


So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
~By Alexander Pope ~


Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~


Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
~By Winston Churchill ~


I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.
~By Harrison Ford ~


Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!
~By Giovanni Papini ~


People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.
~By Christo ~


I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.
~By Thurston Moore ~


I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.
~By Vicente Fox ~


We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~


A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.
~By Philippe Halsman ~


The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
~By Desmond Morris ~


Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
~By William Ellery Channing ~


When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.
~By Robert Fisk ~


Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~


No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
~By Erica Jong ~


The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
~By John Berger ~


Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
~By Herbert Spencer ~


Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
~By George Orwell ~


Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
~By Camille Paglia ~


Sports is human life in microcosm.
~By Howard Cosell ~


I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
~By Armistead Maupin ~


The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
~By Havelock Ellis ~


I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.
~By Elizabeth Banks ~


Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
~By Kofi Annan ~


Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
~By Todd Gitlin ~


The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
~By Karl Shapiro ~


Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~


I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~


Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
~By Laurence Stern ~


If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.
~By Liv Ullman ~


It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
~By Edward Thorndike ~


The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.
~By Genevieve Bujold ~


Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.
~By Elihu Root ~


Genius: the superhuman in man.
~By Victor Hugo ~


Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
~By Viktor E. Frankl ~


In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
~By Dean Koontz ~


To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
~By Robert Fulghum ~


Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~


When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~


Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~


Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~


If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
~By Joichi Ito ~


Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.
~By Hudson Stuck ~


There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~


Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.
~By Myriam Miedzian ~


The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
~By Anatole Broyard ~


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 ~


The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.
~By David Foster Wallace ~


Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~


Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
~By Marquis de Lafayette ~


There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
~By Katharine Fullerton Gerould ~


Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
~By Hans Kung ~


And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~


Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.
~By Stockwell Day ~


Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
~By Mary McLeod Bethune ~


Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.
~By Sean O'Casey ~


Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
~By Philip Roth ~


The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
~By Vaclav Havel ~


Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
~By Louis Gerstner ~


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 ~


Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
~By Martha Beck ~


On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~


Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~


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 ~


An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
~By John McCarthy ~


So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
~By Aaron Copland ~


Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.
~By Michael McCaul ~


It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.
~By Alexis Arguello ~


A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
~By Alan Turing ~


Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
~By Pope John Paul II ~


Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
~By Aldous Huxley ~


Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
~By Rita Dove ~


Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
~By Samuel Richardson ~


At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~


When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
~By Galen Rowell ~


In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.
~By David Brin ~


I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.
~By Daniel Johns ~


We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.
~By Mike Pence ~


The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
~By Edward Bond ~


The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~


We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~


Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~


This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.
~By Ismail Merchant ~


The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
~By Adam Ferguson ~


Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
~By Donna Leon ~


There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
~By Emmeline Pankhurst ~


There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~


I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~


Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~


The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~


The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
~By George H. Mead ~


The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.
~By Rene Cassin ~


I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
~By Neil Armstrong ~

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