Human Quotes

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.

It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had two lines: one was the human food line and one was the cat food line - and they didn't look any different.

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.