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Quotes About Human

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness aggressiveness engenders hostility hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.
~ Dorothy Thompson
Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear.
~ Paul Parker
Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.
~ Unknown
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being
~ Plato
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.
~ John Updike
As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.
~ H. L. Mencken
Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.
~ Alan D. Eames
To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.
~ Rebecca West
We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.
~ Annalee Newitz
Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically.
~ Michael Pollan
Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.
~ Kent Nerburn
When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.
~ Richard Holloway
But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?
~ Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.
~ Maria Montessori
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
~ John Steinbeck
The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
~ Olof Palme
Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.
~ Lech Walesa
If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
~ B. F. Skinner
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. It is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.
~ Frank I. Cobb
I'm for freedom, which I believe is a universal value that every human being is and that is a gift from God.
~ Dana Perino
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
~ Joichi Ito
Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.
~ Saul Alinsky