Quotes of: Human-way Keyword

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

❤ 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

People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols & Other Writings

The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure:

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

The first move was to turn to the one great, perfectly visible and certified revolution in the recent history of the human race [the Google search-engine].

Bringing It All Back Home

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Blindness

Simplicity is everywhere in nature, and meditation is a natural state. Meditation is a state of peaceful equilibrium, the fourth state of consciousness, and is always available to every single human being.

Baby Steps to Meditation

If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.

The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates