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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable...
Every step toward the goal of justice
requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle;
the tireless exertions and
passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
I'm not used to feeling so human.
Is it always like this?
- Edward, from Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
- Henry David Thoreau
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The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson
The very essence of instinct is that
it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil,
no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.
This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world.
The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
Our honorable and worthy ancestors knew that the world was flat,
motionless, and the center of the universe.
They knew the human body could not withstand
the forces of traveling faster than 19 mph.
They knew that the way to salvation was
exorcising witches and slaying non-believers.
They knew that it was a mortal sin to marry
someone of a different skin color.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human spirit ranges across a truly amazing
diversity of experiences and emotions -
the highest peaks and the lowest valleys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
- John Galsworthy
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
One of the oldest human needs is having someone
to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Let freedom reign. The sun never set
on so glorious a human achievement.
- Nelson Mandela
As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy,
because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
- Jimmy Carter
The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
- The Buddha
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
I adore the human experience
- Jewel
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation
and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein
It's humbling to think that all animals,
including human beings,
are parasites of the plant world.
- Isaac Asimov
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Is the system going to flatten you out
and deny you your humanity,
or are you going to be able to make use of the system
to the attainment of human purposes?
- Joseph Campbell
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
America did not invent human rights.
In a very real sense, it is the other way around.
Human rights invented America.
- Jimmy Carter
Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau
If the human race wishes to have a
prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity,
they have only got to behave in a
peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
- Winston Churchill
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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