Quotes About Human

Yet when his classmates put their blades to a colored cadaver, they did more for the cause of colored advancement than the most high-minded abolitionist. In death the negro became a human being. Only then was he the white man's equal.

Love thy god and family, distrust politicians and use every minute of your time to progress towards your goals and you just might survive our twisted, cheating and greedy human world.

The moment we realise our place as insignificant, we can use our human power of the mind to build something of significance and this is what I intend to achieve; all that I wish to do is to create to contribute and to be remembered for my contribution to humanity's progression.

it is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!

It is not easy to bring about the death of the entire race of men, and the law is there; but one may, with patience, exterminate the human ants one by one.

?nsan der: "Okyanustan daha zekiyim ben." Olas?d?r; dahas? oldukça da do?rudur; ama onun okyanusta yaratt??? ürküntüden daha ço?unu okyanus onda uyand?r?r: Kan?tlanmas? gereksiz bir ?ey.

For us, luck is a trifle over which, in human life, it passes just like that. We try and suffer because, thanks to that, we know that we are alive.

The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.

the shadow is not necessarily always an opponent. In fact, he is exactly like any human being with whom one has to get along, sometimes by giving in, sometimes by resisting, sometimes by giving love—whatever the situation requires. The shadow becomes hostile only when he is ignored or misunderstood.

What doesn't work is to worry harder. Gotta keep our faith in human incompetence. No matter how hard we try to screw things up, we're only human: good chance we'll screw up the screwing-up. -From Bishop & Fuller's "Survival.

Chester Pullman is simply one of the most generous human beings I've ever had the pleasure of meeting in my life. To me, he is an American treasure!

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

Soy conservador en los problemas económicos, pero liberal cuando tratamos problemas humanos».

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

La città non è una giungla d'asfalto, come è stato detto; è uno zoo umano».

This was evil's hour: we could not run away from it. Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

forward. This was evil's hour: we could not run away from it. Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God's power

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of God is infected by the hand of man, that is, written down, it is tainted.

The way we understand human life depends on what conception we have of the human story.

I thought about how we tilled and cultivated the land, planted trees on it, fenced it, built houses on it, and did everything we could to hold off the eternity of distance—anything to give the landscape some sort of human scale. No matter what we did to try and form the West, however, the West inevitably formed us instead.

It was strange the paths the human heart chose to take and the attachments it made along the way. The surest sign of the altruistic nature of the organ is its ability to ignore race, color, creed, and gender and just blindly love with all its might—one of the most irrefutable forces on earth. They

The High Plains settler (myth obscures) a truth that is more complex and less immediately satisfying but embraces, as the stereotype does not, all of what it means to be human.