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Humanity Quotes (page 171)

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. Sigmund Freud
Michael Crichton quote: "Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other."
Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. Michael Crichton
Stephen King quote: "They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure..."
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings? Stephen King
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life."I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think. Jane Austen
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute Rumi
And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift. To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man. Jacob Bronowski
The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations to be made between the self and the other, between being and non-being (the discovery of the scandal of death). George Steiner
The Convention promulgated this great axiom: "The liberty of one citizen ends where the liberty of another citizen begins," which comprises in two lines the entire law of human society. Victor Hugo
Toni Morrison quote: "It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with..."
It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being. Toni Morrison
Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding. Graham Greene
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death. Nelson Mandela
Heinrich Heine quote: "Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human..."
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. Heinrich Heine
Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope. Alexander Dumas
Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw..."
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent. Mark Twain

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