Human Quotes

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.

The election in Iraq clearly demonstrates that Iraqi people are like people everywhere. They desire to create a future in an environment that is safe and allows them to reach their full potential as human beings, whatever that potential may be.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.