Human Quotes

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.

What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

I'm a shy human being.

All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

However, further research has shown that it is the normal condition for humans and for most other mammals. It seems pretty clear why this is the case for most mammals and for most human beings.