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Humanness Quotes (page 6)

Christopher Hitchens quote: "Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. Christopher Hitchens
Mark Twain quote: "Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."
Human beings can be awful cruel to one another. Mark Twain
Human beings owe a debt of love to one another because there is no other method of paying the debt of love and care which all of us owe to providence. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dave Eggers quote: "Humans are divided between those who can still look through..."
Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Dave Eggers
E. O. Wilson quote: "Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial..."
Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture. E. O. Wilson
Eudora Welty quote: "Human life is fiction's only theme."
Human life is fiction's only theme. Eudora Welty
Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use. The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like "living" does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world. Richard Dawkins
Germaine Greer quote: "Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves."
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. Germaine Greer
... Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are only termite hills left but no bush? Tad Williams
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100) Rollo May
Immanuel Kant quote: "Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as..."
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends. Immanuel Kant
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable. Michael Crichton
Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him. Dean Koontz
Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not? self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives. Pam Brown
Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend. E. O. Wilson

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