Quotes About Human

To have a personal life is the minimum freedom you have to give to a human being.

I sometimes joke that I can take personal responsibility for saving one million human relationships.

Long a student and admirer of the American West, its history, its art, its culture, its cast of personalities, I'm aware that in the West a great confluence of events and people combined to create something unique in the annals of human history.

It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?

My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.

What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.

We can always connect with all of our characters on a human level, but a lot of them took a lot of observation and exploration and talking with people. And we absolutely embrace our actors' perspectives on all that.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

I grew up using maps and having a sense of direction, and now I have a phone. I used to try to remember numbers, and now I... can just call them up instantly. And that's great. But what's happening right now is that we're in a phase of human evolution where we're merging with machines.

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

Working with Jackie Chan was one of the most phenomenal experiences. I won't say that he is the most grounded actor, but he is the most grounded human being I have ever seen.

It's a human phenomenon that there has to be a reason for everything. There almost never is.

The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

Music does communicate across language and racial and religious and philosophical barriers. It is one of the most distilled forms of human emotions.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

We are becoming so fickle and self involved. Always looking for the next best thing - especially when it comes to people. We spend hours buried in our phones trying to keep up with the social lives of people we may not even know. Envy and the fear of missing out have taken over. Yet we are all still longing for human connection.

Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma.

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.

For the exploitation of human greed, they have devised comparison and competition. Right from childhood on, we are indoctrinated to compare and compete, and there is a word, a phrase: 'free and fair competition.'

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.

Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.