Human Quotes

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave god alone. He has enough problems.

I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Certainly another Brad Sherman might be annoying, but it isn't something society doesn't know how to deal with. But a new level of human being is something else.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?

Sex is God's joke on human beings.