Human Quotes

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.

We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do.

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.

Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.