Human Quotes

In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.

I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.

Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.

I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Dogs are the only mammals that will actually stare and look into a human's eyes.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.