Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.
~By Ivan Illich ~
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
~By Andre Malraux ~
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
~By Jean Philippe Rameau ~
Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
~By Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ~
People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
~By Johnny Depp ~
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
~By Charles Perrault ~
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.
~By Mother Jones ~
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
~By Octavio Paz ~
That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.
~By Casey Kasem ~
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
~By William Dunbar ~
Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.
~By James Hansen ~
We must make working life more human.
~By Goran Persson ~
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
~By Angelina Grimke ~
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
~By Margaret Atwood ~
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
~By Nikki Giovanni ~
I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser.
~By Mary Harris Jones ~
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
~By Luther Burbank ~
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.
~By John Scott ~
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.
~By John Comenius ~
Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
~By Len Wein ~
I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.
~By Julia Stiles ~
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
~By Francois Mauriac ~
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'
~By John McCain ~
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~
The human race is governed by its imagination.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
~By Alvin Adams ~
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
~By Abdoulaye Wade ~
In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
~By Andrew Sullivan ~
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
~By Alice James ~
Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.
~By Eudora Welty ~
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.
~By Rocco Buttiglione ~
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
~By Alan Turing ~
White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
~By Robin Morgan ~
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
~By Jules Verne ~
I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
Humanity is the sin of God.
~By Theodore Parker ~
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
~By Toru Takemitsu ~
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 ~
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.
~By Laurel Clark ~
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.
~By Shel Silverstein ~
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same.
~By Henry Ossawa Tanner ~
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
~By Carl Friedrich Gauss ~
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
~By Nelson Algren ~
And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
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 ~
All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
~By Ernest Renan ~
I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.
~By Charlize Theron ~
It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.
~By Joe Slovo ~
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
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 ~
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
~By Max Lerner ~
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
~By Jean Rostand ~
I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
~By Horace Mann ~
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.
~By Robert De Niro ~
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
~By Primo Levi ~
Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.
~By Colin R. Davis ~
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
~By Scarlett Johansson ~
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 ~
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
~By Sydney Smith ~
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
~By James Dickey ~
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.
~By Julie Harris ~
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
~By Karl Marx ~
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner.
~By James Ellroy ~
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
~By Jim Morrison ~
If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.
~By Tim LaHaye ~
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
~By Mark Edwards ~
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