Quotes of: Human-species Keyword

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

Vivienne Westwood

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

Wynton Marsalis

Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human rights. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt the Younger

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

Ciaran Hinds

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

George Jessel

Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.

Yoko Ono

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to...

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as the result of tension between the two polarities night and day, night, the negative pole, must share equal importance wit...

Sleep Has His House

So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes, yet we adults have them all the time! We think if we don't nip it in the bud, it will escalate and we wil...

The Newbie's Guide to Positive Parenting

Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that th...

The Last Hero

Simple answers to the most difficult questions: 1. Why do humans find it difficult to express themselves? To relate to the movies and books, later. 2. Why do humans make everything look so big, beautiful & complicated? Ego feels good. 3. Why do human...

Saurabh Sharma

If you want to go up in the world, veil ambition with the forms of humanity.

Chinese

You call me the unhuman," it might say to him, "and so I really am—for you; but I am so only because you bring me into opposition to the human, and I could despise myself only so long as I let myself be hypnotized into this opposition. I was contem...

The Ego and Its Own

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.

Cronenberg on Cronenberg

Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.

The China Garden

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Choke

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

Climats

The human body is the most ordinary of things, yet also the most extraordinary.

Co-ed Naked Philosophy

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Carrie

...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

Cry Of The Wolf