Quotes of: Humans Keyword

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

E. O. Wilson

Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.

James McAvoy

For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.

Edward Thorndike

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

E. O. Wilson

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

Fidel Castro

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

F. Sionil Jose

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.

Frans de Waal

When admiring human accomplishments we should not confuse the achievements of the few for the capacity of the many.

Geoffroy Birtz

Vampires and humans; we are all monsters in our own way at the end of a dream, or a nightmare.

Cameron Jace

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.

Criss Jami

I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.

C.G. Jung

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Charles Sumner

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

H.L. Mencken

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

Henry Rollins

If you want to help people we have to dive into people wade into the sea of humanity.

Hugh Halter & Matt Smay

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Henry David Thoreau

It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

Idi Amin

There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.

Jacqueline Bisset

Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.

Josh Bowman

Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself.

Debasish Mridha