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.
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If we look at the day-to-day suffering of the Venezuelan people, that's not about numbers: it's about human beings.
A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.
When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.
'The Look of Silence' is able to have a wide public release, although still not in cinemas. It's distributed by two government bodies, the National Human Rights Commission and the Jakarta Arts Council.
Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us...
The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.
Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
