Human Quotes

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.

Communal well-being is central to human life.

It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

Even when people are so judgmental about what you wear or your weight you just have to step away and be like, 'I'm a normal, fine human being.'

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.

I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.

Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those.

I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.

I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.