Human Quotes

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Scientists are human, they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

A human life is a schooling for eternity.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.