Human Quotes

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.

We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

I still prefer horses to human beings.

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.