Human Quotes

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.

Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

There's nothing more human than two people making love.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair.

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

They've turned this character into a human being.

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.