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Humanness Is Quotes (page 17)

Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas. Kurt Vonnegut
Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation--the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks. C. S. Lewis
Human society is ninety percent muck that won't disperse to the appropriate location that’s why I chose the profession of plumber. Rose Tremain
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts what should be above things as they are. It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master. Czeslaw Milosz
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. Chuck Klosterman
Human beings, after all, have some sense; they see that you cannot have any real safety or happiness except in a society where every one plays fair, and it is because they see this that they try to behave decently. C. S. Lewis
Laurence Stern quote: "Human nature is the same in all professions."
Human nature is the same in all professions. Laurence Stern
Margaret Mead quote: "Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and..."
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. Margaret Mead
Graham Greene quote: "Human nature is not black and white but black and grey."
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. Graham Greene
James Anthony Froude quote: "Human improvement is from within outward."
Human improvement is from within outward. James Anthony Froude
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. Benjamin Franklin
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. Gustave Flaubert
Euripides quote: "Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that..."
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. Euripides
Friedrich Durrenmatt quote: "Human life is beyond comprehension."
Human life is beyond comprehension. Friedrich Durrenmatt
David Deutsch quote: "Is the human race a universal constructor?"
Is the human race a universal constructor? David Deutsch

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