Human Quotes

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Many after-dinner speakers remind us that to err is human.

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.

The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.

I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.