Human Quotes

I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

The march of the human mind is slow.

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.