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Human Quotes

Being human is a work in progress.

These human quotes take a reflective turn, covering our capacity to change and adapt, the elusive search for real satisfaction beyond consumption, and a candid look at why relationships often fall short of what we hope for. For more, see our Human Being quotes.

I believe that our communities can benefit if they know about and participate in the U.N.'s various human rights forums.

Quotes by Opal Tometi

Instead of expecting truck drivers and warehouse workers to rapidly retrain so they can compete with tireless, increasingly capable machines, let's play to their human strengths and create opportunities for workers as companions and caregivers for our elders, our children,...

Quotes by Oren Etzioni

Our highways and our roads are underutilized because of the allowances we have to make for human drivers.

Quotes by Oren Etzioni

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

Quotes by Olusegun Obasanjo

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.

Quotes by Olympia Brown

For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase of the human race.

Quotes by Om Malik

Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?

Quotes by Oliver Tambo

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Quotes by Oliver Herford

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

Quotes by Olin Miller

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

Quotes by Olive Schreiner

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

Quotes by Octavio Paz

I make videos about people's stories in a way that is human.

Quotes by Nuseir Yassin

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

Quotes by Norman Spinrad

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

Quotes by Norman Cousins

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

Quotes by Norman Cousins

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Quotes by Norman Cousins

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Quotes by Noam Chomsky

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about seeking human honour and respect?
Yes, one quote expresses this as a kind of utopian wish: "Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes." For more reflections on what it means to exist, see our Being quotes.
Is there a quote about human beings changing and growing over time?
Yes, one quote states: "As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser." For more directly on this theme, see our Human Being quotes.
Is there a quote about finding happiness outside of consumption?
Yes, one quote argues: "There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production." For more on this idea, see our Life quotes.
Is there a quote about where human attention tends to focus in relationships?
Yes, one quote observes: "Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory."
Where can I find more quotes about the human experience generally?
Our Always quotes offer more broad, timeless reflections that pair well with this theme.

Broader reflections on identity and existence continue on our Being and Life pages, both natural extensions of this theme.