Humans Quotes

If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

We are all museums of fear.

'Humans have evolved in order to function in our own limited world,' he said 'just like every other animal. Yes, we're smarter. We couldn't outrun tigers or outfight bears, so we had to out-think them. But just because some of us our smarter than kangaroos, doesn't mean we know everything.'

The true science and study of man is man.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Truly man is a marvellously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him.

War. War never changes. Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything, from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess.

There's no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.

Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. You need courage to hold onto happiness.