Human Quotes

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans.

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.

We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood.

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.