Human Quotes

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Sometimes you're only human and you learn.

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

You couldn't have human society without language.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.

But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

I am just one human being.

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

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.