Human Quotes

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

~ Mohamed Elbaradei

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

~ Blaise Pascal

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

~ Bill Maher

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

~ Sojourner Truth

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

~ Octavia E. Butler

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

~ Eddie Izzard

In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.

~ Paul Rand

Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.

~ Mircea Eliade

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

~ Dan Quayle

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

~ George Orwell

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

~ Charles Babbage

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

~ Betty Ford

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

~ Naomi Wolf

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

~ John Steinbeck

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

~ Dalai Lama

I just try to be the best I can, but I'm human.

~ Selena Gómez

Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.

~ Naomie Harris

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

~ J. Irwin Miller

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

~ Charles Lamb

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

~ Lady Gaga

The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.

~ Debbie Ford

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

~ H. G. Wells

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

~ A. J. P. Taylor

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

~ Ha-Joon Chang

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

~ Ayn Rand

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

~ Salman Rushdie

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

~ W. H. Auden

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

~ Avery Brooks

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

~ Jared Diamond

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

~ John Mccarthy

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

~ Eldridge Cleaver

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

~ Pierre Bayle

We know there are certain chemicals that are designed to give us a rush of pleasure. But, one of the most amazing things about being human is our capacity to override that pleasure. To either say, 'I don't need that pleasure right now. I'm going to ignore the craving.' Or to find something else that we find a deeper sense of reward from.

~ Charles Duhigg

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

~ Walter Isaacson

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

~ Robert A. Heinlein