Quotes of: Human-progress Keyword

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

George Orwell

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

George Santayana

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

Wole Soyinka

Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.

Claire Tomalin

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

Pope Francis

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Orson Welles

When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum…for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expressi...

FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition

That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans, you’re left with humans with no humanity. In other words, you get what you pay for, motherfucker

The Infinite Sea

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work.

Peter F. Drucker

No other animal bonds to a human being the way a dog does. And I suspect there is no other animal to which human beings can bond the way we can bond to a dog.

Robert Crais

Listen to me, Jez. There's no reason for you to die-" Wood...poison." No it isn't! Not to humans. And you're half human. You're vampire enough to survie something that would kill a human, but you're human enough not to be poisoned by wood.

L.J. Smith

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of li...

M.H. Abrams

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

Nick Cave

It's like, say, if you were a dog. You notice that you're getting old, and you look at your human and you think, 'Why isn't this human getting old?'... But now we're the human looking out and imagining a different human.

Cynthia Kenyon

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

Commentary on Romans

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Ends and Means

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

John Jay Chapman

Progress among the youngest children is especially important because we know that preventing obesity at an early age helps young people maintain a healthy weight into adulthood.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey