One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
~ Margaret Mead
I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.
~ Kid Rock
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.
~ Robert Shapiro
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
~ Virginia Woolf
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
~ Gertrude Stein
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
~ Octavio Paz
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
~ Georges Bataille
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
~ Eileen Caddy
In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.
~ Abraham Kuyper
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
~ George Gallup
There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.
~ Gary L. Francione
Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.
~ Marianne Williamson
Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.
~ Rebecca Mackinnon
The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or malice - is the very reason we need to eliminate them altogether.
~ Valerie Plame
The worst environmental decision you can make as a human being is to have 14 kids.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.
~ Ani Difranco
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
~ Karl Marx
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
~ George Orwell
There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.
~ Steven Pinker
The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.
~ Marina Abramović
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
~ Edward Bond
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
~ Bayard Rustin
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
~ Peter Senge
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
~ James Anthony Froude
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.
~ Matthew Shultz
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
~ Stephen Harper
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
~ Benjamin Tucker
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.
~ Jimmy Reid
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.
~ Teju Cole
Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.
~ Margo Jefferson
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
For a girl, the wedding is when you're married. For a guy, it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.
~ Max Greenfield
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
~ Nelson Mandela
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
~ Ernest Renan
There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.
~ Niall Ferguson
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
~ Rollo May
Human beings crave freedom at their core.
~ John Ensign
