Human Quotes

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

Yes, I see the Mobile Base System really is the shoulder of the arm. The arm is right there, like a human arm. It's really funny to look at the similarities between a human arm and the Canadian robotics arm.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.