If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
~By Margaret Mead ~
The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.
~By Brock Yates ~
I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
~By William James ~
I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!
~By Sheri S. Tepper ~
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
~By Paul Hawken ~
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
~By George Orwell ~
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
~By George Orwell ~
Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.
~By Margot Kidder ~
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
~By Kenzo Tange ~
Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee.
~By Michael McCaul ~
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
~By Elsa Maxwell ~
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
~By Jon Secada ~
It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.
~By Cat Stevens ~
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
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 ~
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.
~By Henry Reed ~
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
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 ~
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.
~By Wyclef Jean ~
I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
~By Dave Davies ~
Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.
~By Emma Thompson ~
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
~By James Gunn ~
I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.
~By Michael Tippett ~
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
~By Barry Humphries ~
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
~By Robert Casey ~
This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.
~By Gerry Mulligan ~
Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
~By Annette Bening ~
Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.
~By Michael K. Simpson ~
No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars.
~By Llewelyn Powys ~
If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.
~By Ed Markey ~
Human nature is what Heaven supplies.
~By Xun Zi ~
The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.
~By Silvan Shalom ~
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.
~By Elihu Root ~
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.
~By Sylvia Earle ~
However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.
~By Bill Shuster ~
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
~By Richard Adams ~
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
~By H. G. Wells ~
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
~By Victor Hugo ~
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
~By Alexander Pope ~
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
~By Alexander Alekhine ~
What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.
~By Tom Hanks ~
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
~By Cyrano de Bergerac ~
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~
My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.
~By Joan Miro ~
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
~By Stephen Covey ~
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
~By Jean Rostand ~
You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.
~By Mark Russell ~
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.
~By Todd Solondz ~
I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
~By Jim Carrey ~
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
~By Alan Brien ~
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
~By Jane Harrison ~
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
~By Anthony de Mello ~
When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.
~By Don Johnson ~
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 ~
What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
~By Robert Graves ~
And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.
~By Bjorn Ulvaeus ~
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
~By Olive Schreiner ~
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
~By Thornton Wilder ~
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.
~By Jim Fowler ~
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
~By Henry Ellis ~
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 ~
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
~By Russell Baker ~
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
~By William Blake ~
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
~By George Sand ~
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
~By Susan Sontag ~
War is a defeat for humanity.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.
~By Woody Harrelson ~
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
~By George Eliot ~
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.
~By Chaim Potok ~
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
~By Alan Gregg ~
And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.
~By Robert Creeley ~
I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.
~By Glenn Hughes ~
I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
~By Buzz Aldrin ~
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
~By Ralph W. Sockman ~
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~
There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.
~By Ed O'Brien ~
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
~By Levi Strauss ~
My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience.
~By Wynonna Judd ~
Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.
~By Phil Donahue ~
Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
~By Hu Shih ~
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
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