Quotes of: Human-capacity Keyword

Liberty is not an Idea belonging to Volition, or preferring; but to the Person having the Power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the Mind shall chuse or direct.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exceeds ten ounces; but can never afford a reason that it exceeds a hundred.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

Flowers for Algernon

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.

Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

A moment later, the world's first all-purpose human being strode eastward, whistling. 'A tasty world,' it reflected cheerfully. 'A very tasty world.' 'You said it, Cornelius!

The Final Programme

Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.

The Furies

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!

Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy

There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.

The Good Father

Human beings used to be molecules which could do many, many different sorts of dances, or decline to dance at all --as they pleased. My mother could do the waltz, the tango, the rumba....

Galápagos

A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

God and the State

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

Of Human Bondage

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

Of Human Bondage

What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you.

Of Human Bondage

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)

Hogfather

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

The Hunger Games

Life isn't about the brand of clothes you wear, or about who looks the best. It's about the number of faces which smile when they hear your name

The Human Women Guide

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt

❤ We must all find the spirit to try and help better humanity! We all have it inside us to contribute something to the cause of humanity!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration