Human Quotes

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all these different layers. I prefer playing Lionel because he's a human being.

I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.

And every human being is precious.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

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.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

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.

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause.