Quotes About Human

Goals change, ideas of technology are transformed, but action always remains action. Action always seeks means to realize ends, and it is in this sense always rational and mindful of utility. It is, in a word, human.

It is true that under the wages system the individual is not free to choose permanent unemployment. But no other imaginable social system could grant him a right to unlimited leisure. That man cannot avoid submitting to the disutility of labor is not an outgrowth of any social institution. It is an inescapable natural condition of human life and conduct.

Human thoughts about things of which neither pure reasoning nor experience provides any knowledge may differ so radically that no agreement can be reached.

Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.

History cannot teach us any general rule, principle, or law. There is no means to abstract from a historical experience a posteriori any theories or theorems concerning human conduct and policies. The

The task of the sciences of human action is the comprehension of the meaning and relevance of human action. They apply for this purpose two different epistemological procedures: conception and understanding. Conception is the mental tool of praxeology; understanding is the specific mental tool of history.

That the social life of human beings is subject to definite limitations; that it is governed by a set of laws that are comparable with those of Nature; these are notions that are unknown to the etatist. For the etatist, everything is a question of Macht - power, force, might. And his conception of Macht is crudely materialistic.

The first value of money was clearly the value which the goods used as money possessed (thanks to their suitability for satisfying human wants in other ways) at the moment when they were first used as common media of exchange.

Os bens, as mercadorias, as riquezas e todas as demais noções de conduta não são elementos da natureza, mas sim elementos da mente e da conduta humana. Quem deseje entrar neste segundo universo deve abstrair-se do mundo exterior, centrando a sua atenção no significado das ações empreendidas pelos homens

A importância dos julgamentos de valor consiste precisamente no fato de que são fontes da ação humana. Guiado por suas avaliações, o homem tenta substituir as condições que julga menos satisfatórias por condições que lhe agradem.

Historically the division of labour originates in two facts of nature: the ?inequality of human abilities and the variety of the external conditions of ?human life on earth. These two facts are really one: the diversity of ?Nature

Prices change slowly because the subjective valuations of human beings change slowly.

She wondered how trees became petrified, if the same process worked with a human heart.

There was a time when I prayed to saints. What I liked about them were their humble beginnings: they were human, once, and so you knew that they just got it in a way Jesus never would. They understood what it meant to have your hopes dashed or your promises broken or you feelings hurt.

Call him the chameleon: an alpha male who never had sons, unless an adulterer cooperated. Unlike the changeling, he did have DNA, but it was alien; he could no more reproduce with a human than he could with a rock or a tree.

Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead--too afraid to live, only waiting, never taking a risk--I am as good as dead already.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes

There is no thought, no word, no act, and no area of human life that is not affected by sin.

The universal dress of philosophy and philanthropy can conceal repression, violations of the true personal, human, local, civil, and national freedom

All animal foods cause illness when consumed in amounts typically found in the Western diet. Why? Primarily because they are the wrong foods for humans.

I personally, believe that if you don't respect and truly value human life (other people) you should never be in friendship.

One day I'm going to use this experience in my memoirs [...]. Is when a famous person writes about their life and describes the bad stuff they went through. It's important to have enough bad stuff or it just seems like bragging, and no one likes that. So messing up today that's really helpful, because is shows that I'm human.

There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).

Where are you, Adam? According to the book of Genesis, Adam went into hiding after the fall. By trying to be more than human, Adam felt less than human. Before the fall, Adam was not ashamed; after the fall he was. Toxic shame is true agony. It is a pain felt from the inside, in the core of our being. It is excruciatingly painful.