Human Quotes

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

~ P. T. Barnum

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

~ John Ortberg

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

~ Kate Millett

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

~ Madeleine Albright

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

~ Joseph Addison

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

~ George Santayana

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

~ H. L. Mencken

Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.

~ Eugene Kennedy

Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.

~ Michael Greger

What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.

~ Laura Esquivel

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

~ Grimes

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

~ Neale Donald Walsch

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

~ Bill Gates

Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.

~ Ramez Naam

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

~ Ray Kurzweil

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

~ Dalai Lama

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

~ Tom Clancy

The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.

~ Buzz Aldrin

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

~ Charles Mengel Allen

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.

~ Sherry Turkle

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

~ Margaret Atwood

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

~ David Cronenberg

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

~ Simon Mainwaring

Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.

~ Simon Mainwaring

Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.

~ Nick Harkaway

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

~ John Stuart Mill

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

~ Barry Commoner

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

~ Maurice Sendak

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

~ Edmund Burke

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

~ Jimmy Carter

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

~ Eliot Spitzer

We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.

~ Leopoldo Lopez

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

~ Fred Woodworth

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

~ Smokey Robinson

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

~ Horace Mann

Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

~ Shakira

In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

~ Shakira

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

~ John Ruskin

History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

~ John Paul Jones