Human Quotes

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.

I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth - and I know it.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.