All Quotes

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.
‐‐ Susie Bright

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
‐‐ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
‐‐ A. S. Byatt

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
‐‐ Alice Walker

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.
‐‐ Paul Auster

Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.
‐‐ Michael Crichton

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.
‐‐ Jacqueline Novogratz

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
‐‐ Jane Rule

Human beings understand too much.
‐‐ Seung Sahn

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
‐‐ Herbert Simon

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.
‐‐ John Noble

Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture.
‐‐ John Piper

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
‐‐ Chuck Jones

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
‐‐ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
‐‐ Miguel de Unamuno

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
‐‐ A. J. P. Taylor

Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.
‐‐ Andrew Weil

Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the Stone Age. They are not evolving with the pace of change.
‐‐ Matt Haig

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.
‐‐ Alan Lowenthal

Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.
‐‐ Sada Thompson

Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.
‐‐ Jamais Cascio

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
‐‐ Ludwig von Mises

Human cloning is coming.
‐‐ Mike Pence

Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
‐‐ Ian Frazier

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.
‐‐ Mark Pagel

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
‐‐ Aaron Klug

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.
‐‐ Peter Singer

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
‐‐ Brian Eno

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
‐‐ John Charles Polanyi

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.
‐‐ Kjell Magne Bondevik

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.
‐‐ Edward Thorndike

Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.
‐‐ Banks

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?
‐‐ Steven Pinker

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
‐‐ Sam Harris

Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy

Human exploration is something that's been going on for thousands of years, and the models that worked 500 years ago are likely to work again today.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.
‐‐ Justin Welby