Quotes of: Human-being Keyword

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Adam Smith

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

Martin Chemnitz

Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.

Oscar Isaac

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

Sallust

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

Steven Pinker

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

Salman Rushdie

Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.

Thomas Woods

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

Ani DiFranco

I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.

Will Oldham

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Albert A. Bartlett

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

Anna Lindh

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been re-arranged by the hand of man.

Anonymous

No arrogant man has ever touched the human heart, no despot ever commanded respect.

Andy Paula

the quality of thoughts determines the quality of becoming and the quantity of human progress

Life

Human nature is so complicated that it will never know the exact border between normality and abnormality them they..

Life

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Vittorio Alfieri

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Voltaire