Quotes About Human

What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.

To the jaded eye, all vampires seem alike, but they are wonderful in their versatility. Some come to life in moonlight, others are killed by the sun, some pierce with their eyes, others with fangs, some are reactionary, others are rebels, but all are disturbingly close to the mortals they prey on. I can think of no other monsters who are so receptive. Vampires are neither inhuman nor nonhuman nor all-too-human, they are simply more alive than they should be.

It's loneliness that makes us terrible and hurtful human beings.

An emotional sort. As if there is any other kind of human.

An emotional sort. As if there were any other kind of human. Show me an unemotional sort and I'll show you someone dangerous. How can emotion be avoided when life careens in its unexpected directions?

Yoga takes us back to the beginning of our journey of becoming human; we spark the memory that we are first and always an aspect of the Divine. The physical body was created as a temple to house this Divine light.

To hold a human soul in the palm of your hand like a pebble. To feel somebody slip away, yet by your actions to bring her back! Not even a king had such power.

mortal man. He saw a being

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

In the past, a partial and inadequate view of human purpose has been relatively innocuous only because it has been accompanied by technical limitations. . . This is only one of the many places where human impotence has shielded us from the full destructive impact of human folly.

Nevertheless, in constructing machines, it is often very important for us to extend to them certain human attributes which are not found among the lower members of the animal community. If the reader wishes to conceive this as a metaphoric extension of our human personalities, he is welcome to do so; but he should be cautioned that the new machines will not stop working as soon as we have stopped giving them human support.

The Harada Method is the Human Side of Lean.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can also invent peace with justice.

Because we could change, we did not always know what was natural in us and what was acquired from our culture. Because we could change, we could be overly shaped by culture and society, to a point where we drifted too far from our true nature and became alienated from ourselves. While we may rejoice at the thought that the brain and human nature may be "improved," the idea of human perfectibility or plasticity stirs up a hornet's nest of moral problems.

If the only constant is change then design is going to go on for as long as human beings inhabit the planet, and beyond the planet

The right to sterilize was about government interference in the reproductive process; the right to abort is about barring government interference in it. But at bottom the moral stake is arguably the same: the sanctity of human life.

When it comes to curbing speech, experience thus confirms the general rule in human affairs: humility is to be preferred over arrogance.

Even if there were doubt as to when life begins, the benefit of the doubt should be given to protecting life—reasonable people don't shoot unless they're absolutely sure they won't kill an innocent human being.

Realism about human beings nonetheless compels us to recognize that logical rigor and philosophical soundness carry little weight in civic discourse. They simply cannot stir up sufficient fervor, at least not among a large enough population, to drive mass movements. These movements, even the most virtuous, apparently need a dose of irrationalism to keep going.