Quotes of: Human-species Keyword

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

William Blake

The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

Ken Calvert

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Eric Hoffer

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Hunter S. Thompson

I would say I'm basically interested in human beings, and I don't really care whether they're men or women. I think my comprehension is about the same for both.

Susanne Bier

A lot of times I'll make films that are mostly character-driven films - stories that involve people. Like, I make the joke: I like to make movies about human beings that live on Earth.

Rob Reiner

Tom: Either she's an evil, emotionless, miserable human being, or... she's a robot.

(500) Days of Summer

Bill Sampson: Have you no human consideration? Margo Channing: Show me a human, and I might have!

All About Eve

Enzo: Don't look at Jaques as if he was a human being, he comes from another planet.

The Big Blue

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

Andrea Arnold

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Alan Ayckbourn

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.

Alex Berenson

With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

Arnold Beichman

But if USA has 1.3 billion people, USA would have the same human rights problem just like China.

Alex Chiu

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

Ann Druyan

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Albert Einstein

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

Abbie Hoffman

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Aldous Huxley

She starts to cry. 'It's just so terrible,' she says. 'Which part?,' I ask. 'Being human.

A.M. Homes

[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

Aldous Huxley