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Humanities Quotes (page 3)

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. Milan Kundera
Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Dean Koontz quote: "Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor,..."
Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. Dean Koontz
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there. M. Scott Peck
Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase. Michael Crichton
Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth. The queer earth was a mosaic of sleepers who nestled like spoons. Kurt Vonnegut
..humans love complexity of thought. This they pursue on the totally baseless assumption that complexity indicates profundity or truth. Walter Martin
Jimmy Carter quote: "Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but..."
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns. Jimmy Carter
Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying. Neal Stephenson
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness. Anne Frank
Orson Scott Card quote: "Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?"
Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides? Orson Scott Card
Dan Brown quote: "Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we..."
Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universe Dan Brown
Human being are ultimately nothing but carriers - passageways - for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation." - Haruki Murakami
Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses. Michel de Montaigne
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of [people] willing to be co-workers with God. Martin Luther King jr.

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