Quotes of: Human-capacity Keyword

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

Buzz Aldrin

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.

Philip Roth

Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being.

Life

The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.

Life

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

Voltaire

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

Vladimir Putin

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

William Bennett

Life as a whole is simple, the complexities within it have to do with the motive of the human being.

Wayne Chirisa

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

Werner Herzog

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being?

Herbie Hancock

There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.

Mary Hart

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Milan Kundera

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

Zoe Wanamaker

We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

Natalie Babbitt

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Margaret Fuller

Not without deep pain do we admit to ourselves that the artists of all ages have in their highest flights carried to heavenly transfiguration precisely those conceptions that we now recognize as false: they are the glorifiers of the religious and phi...

Human, All Too Human

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in a...

The Humans

A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relati...

The Sickness Unto Death

She waited with Billy Slick while Carrot went on the errand, and for something to say, she said, ‘Billy Slick doesn’t sound much like a goblin name?’ Billy made a face. ‘Too right! Granny calls me Of the Wind Regretfully Blown. What kind of n...

Snuff

["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of human beings come about in the same way. For hatred of human beings arises from artlessly trusting somebody...

Phaedo