Quotes About Human

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.

Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance, and deranges the course of events.

War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.

We're only human." "One of us, anyway. The other's a reptile." "Harsh, Annabelle. Very harsh.

Your body, Lilly… don't you see? This is the body that gave birth to the human race." His words ran counter to everything that the world she lived in preached. Diets. Denial. An obsession with female bone instead of female flesh. The culture of youth and thinness. Of stinginess. Of disfigurement. Of fear.

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as pride.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go. They remind us of how to be human, how to live alongside the other lives that animate this planet. ... When we lose stories, our understanding of the world is less rich, less true.

I had discovered early at Ellis that a hospital nurse performs the same tasks day after day after day, and that an odd solace can be found in the monotony of those duties. Were it not for the steady thrum of the routine, the spectacle of unending human suffering would be a hospital nurse's undoing.

cannot show: that the terror began not in far-off Poland, but in the heart of a city full of clubs and cafés, spaces where you can still buy a lottery ticket or go to the dentist. Each four-inch square recalls an ordinary human being, in the midst of her life, who was deported and murdered with little notice and no protest from the other ordinary human beings who surrounded her every day. The terror was here.

It's human nature to set a point in our minds when we feel triumphant and to measure everything that comes after it by how far we fall or rise from that point.

Goodhue wanted visitors to feel more than they were in a pretty building. He wanted them to feel they were part of a three-dimensional meditation on the power of human intellect and the potency of storytelling.

It wasn't that time stopped in the library. It was as if it were captured here, collected here, and in all libraries—and not only my time, my life, but all human time as well. In the library, time is dammed up—not just stopped but saved. The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them.

Once words and thoughts are poured into them, books are no longer just paper, ink, and glue: They take on a kind of human vitality.

Goodhue wanted visitors to feel more than that they were in a pretty building. He wanted them to feel they were part of a three-dimensional meditation on the power of human intellect and the potency of storytelling.

It wasn't that time stopped in the library. It was as if it were captured, collected here, and in all libraries -- and not only my time, my life, but all human time as well. In the library, time is dammed up--not just stopped but saved.

Lucky discovered that laughing was like crying in the sense that sometimes you cannot stop. And it's a catching disease, because when another person is spurting and gasping it makes you start again even after you have taken deep gulps of air and stopped looking at the other laughing person.

Storytelling began as a way for humans to relay information, from where to find food sources to the benefits of familial bonding, because fictional stories were the easiest way to memorize and communicate a complete set of information. We remember information best when it is delivered in the form of a plot, which is called 'semantic memory.' Stories still serve a definitive purpose and the stronger the purpose, the clearer the story. Fire Up Your Writing Brain

Janet showed her teeth. "Time to get real, Sarah. No more human sacrifices, got it?

An encounter with God is not achieved by stripping us of our human nature, but rather by entering into it honestly, as Jesus did. As a