Human Quotes

I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.

I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

Wrinkles happen to human beings.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now.

In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.