Humans Quotes

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

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

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.

Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just hasn't been paying attention.

The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.

Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged

If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

As sensitive and broad-minded humans, we must never allow ourselves to be in any way judgmental of the religious practices of other people, even when these people clearly are raving space loons.

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

Nearly all human beings love, but nearly none know how to love.

We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.

Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.

Human beings have enormous resilience.

Trust is the ultimate human currency.

To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.

I came to the conclusion that bringing Humans to earth with an intact ability to LOVE is essential if we are to survive as a species.

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

Good homes are still the best source of good humans.

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be properly explained in reference to the whole Bible.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.

Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration.

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.

I don't get along with anything, I really don't...I'm, I'm, maybe I'm just a, you know, incredibly tasteful human being.

President Bush and Bill Clinton both agree that cloning is morally wrong. Clinton said that he thinks humans should be made the old-fashioned way - liquored up in a cheap hotel room.

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

I'm for freedom, which I believe is a universal value that every human being is and that is a gift from God.

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.

Hope is what makes the human condition liveable

I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.