Human Quotes

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager's goal.

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.