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Quotes About Human

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
A human life is poetry written in our heart.
~ Debasish Mridha
Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.
~ Michelle Templet
Religion is an outcome of the human weakness, or The limitation of human knowledge, or the fear.
~ Anonymous
The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing
~ Robert Bly
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.
~ Hannah Arendt
I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.
~ Michael Longley
Poetry fettered fetters the human race.
~ William Blake
Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
~ John Dryden
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
~ J. M. Synge
Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.
~ Tavares Strachan
Even the simplest poemMay destroy your immunity to human emotions.All poems must carry a Government warning. WordsCan seriously affect your heart.
~ Elma Mitchell
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
~ Enoch Powell
Man is by nature a political animal.
~ Aristotle
Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
~ Ronald Reagan
Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.
~ John Derbyshire
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
~ Vera Brittain
Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
~ Thorstein Veblen
Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.
~ Irving Kristol
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
~ Samuel Butler