Humans Quotations

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin

There was an act of defiance which goes on where these humans and aliens save these children, and hence the name/term of 'Defiance.' Formerly, it was St. Louis. This frontier town springs up from it. And everybody tries to integrate, they try to re-invent themselves as well.

I think that connection with humans is so important. Sometimes I'll do this monologue and talk to the crowd, like, 'Come on, let's really connect here.' I don't think a lot of people understand it's a two-way exchange. Some people go to a show and are like, 'Yeah, you make me feel.' That's not how it works.

For every expert that says humans are the cause of 'climate change' there are 10 more who say we aren't.

When I was in Holland, the idea was, all cultures are equal and all are to be preserved. My idea was, no, all humans are equal, but not all cultures are equal.

Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.

When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant.

The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.

When I went to Amazonia, l went as the field doctor for biologists studying crocodile behavior. There's no way humans should have any encounters with crocodiles. You should stay away from them!

Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

All of us are much more human than otherwise

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.

For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and even intelligent being. However, those were simply speculations, and now we have evidence for the first part of these ideas.

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

Even if humans feel lots of fear, remember God will take care of you. This is a collective message because fear is contagious... This is a message of reassurance.

Fifty percent of the weight of the soybean is protein. And what a protein! No other protein that we've known comes so nearly to the basic protein of animals and humans as soybean protein.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Humanity will live as long as there are humans.

Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress, more fully revealing himself as humans gain the capacity to better understand.

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride that humans had finally launched an object into space.

I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people.

For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.

Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life.

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.

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.

There are still many challenges and questions that need to be addressed before optogenetics can be applied in humans for therapeutic uses.

When you're dealing with a problem as complex as autism, you have to look at it from many different points of view and assemble evidence from many different vantage points. Biological evidence in humans and in animals, toxicologic evidence, how does the body deal with toxins, and evidence looking at the actual experience in populations.

In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria, some of which make their way onto the newborn's skin.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.

From my perspective, it's really risk management to ensure that humans have the ability to go somewhere else in case there were to be some huge disaster on Earth.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses to the senses of other animals and species that we don't have, we can get ideas for new abilities that we can adapt to humans by applying cybernetics to the body.

The basic thing with adventure medicine or extreme medicine is that you are going to places where humans don't belong and people will certainly get into trouble.

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.

Consciousness-one level is understanding where we are in space. Consciousness two is where we understand our position in society: who's top dog, who's underdog and who's in the middle. And type-three consciousness is simulating the future. And type-three consciousness, only humans have this ability to see far into the future.

All humans change. Development is our life. Transition, in labor, is the most painful time. Without change, there's no growth.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.

Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

As human beings, what we can do is extend help in whatever way possible.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.