Human Quotes

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

- A. E. van Vogt

I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.

- A. J. Bowen

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

- A. N. Wilson

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.

- Aaron Koblin

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

- Aaron Paul

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

- Abbas Kiarostami

I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

- Abby Wambach

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

- Abdullah II of Jordan

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

- Abdullah II of Jordan

We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

- Abdullah II of Jordan

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

- Abraham Maslow

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

- Abraham Maslow

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

- Abraham Maslow

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

- Abraham Maslow

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

- Abraham Maslow

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

- Ace Frehley

I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

- Action Bronson

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

- Adam Clarke

I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.

- Adam Driver

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

- Adam Ferguson

Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

- Adam Grant

Bernard Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, sees technology as an augmentation to current healing tools - but not a replacement for human kindness, an integral part of healthcare.

- Adam Lashinsky

Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.

- Adam Levine

I think I've shown the world I'm a fierce competitor, yes. But I've also shown them that I'm a fierce human being.

- Adam Rippon

You need to have a lot of human judgment involved in the financial industry in terms of risk management, in terms of investment decisions, and things that really allow us to blend the best of technology and the human brain.

- Adena Friedman

When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the jar and placed it in my hands. And there it was, the seat of human consciousness, the powerhouse of the human body, sitting in my hands.

- Aditi Shankardass

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

Every human being is unique and reacts differently to different food items. A diet that works for you may not necessarily work for your friend.

- Adnan Sami

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

- Adrienne Rich

The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.

- Afrika Bambaataa

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

- Agnes Macphail

The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

- Ahmet Davutoglu

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

- Ahmet Zappa

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

- Ai Weiwei

Since the global economic crisis began, the change in global attitudes is clear to see - and I think it is pitiful. Barack Obama came to China and he is probably the only president of the United States never to mention the words 'human rights' in public.

- Ai Weiwei

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

- Ai Weiwei

I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again.

- Aileen Wuornos

I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out its meaning for myself. The human being's ability to make a metaphor to describe a human experience is just really cool.

- Aimee Bender

I love the powerful woman who's complicated. There's no push to be one thing or another thing. It's all human. That's what you look for as an actor: characters written and portrayed in the most human way possible.

- Aja Naomi King

My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment.

- Ajay Mehta

My father used to see God in human beings and in his work. Each person has his own way.

- Akkineni Nagarjuna

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

- Al Gore

The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money and prestige in a world obsessed by the achievements of science.

- Alain de Botton

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

- Alain de Botton

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything.

- Alan Arkin

In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.

- Alan Ball

I believe that 100, 200, 300 years from now, all these paintings will be around because they're the first paintings of humans doing things off this Earth.

- Alan Bean

Any human being has private thoughts.

- Alan Dershowitz

The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.

- Alan Furst

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

- Alan Greenspan

Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected that or given it a moment's thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.

- Alan Greenspan

I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits.

- Alan Greenspan

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

- Alan Gregg

As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.

- Alan Lightman

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

- Alan Paton

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.

- Alan Ruck

Human beings have long wondered whether they are alone in the universe.

- Alan Stern

What's casual for a robot isn't necessarily what's casual for a human.

- Alan Tudyk

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

- Alanis Morissette

I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.

- Alanis Morissette

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

- Albert Camus

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

- Albert Einstein

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

- Albert Einstein

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

- Albert Einstein

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

- Albert Einstein

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

- Albert Ellis

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

- Albert Schweitzer

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

- Albert Schweitzer

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

- Aldous Huxley

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

- Aldous Huxley

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm very curious, I guess, as a human being.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But if USA has 1.3 billion people, USA would have the same human rights problem just like China.

- Alex Chiu

Buying food from farmers and people that I know adds that human element that I love.

- Alex Guarnaschelli

I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?

- Alex Tabarrok

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.

- Alexa Chung

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

- Alexander Hamilton

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

- Alexander Hamilton

Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.

- Alexander Ludwig

You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

- Alexander McCall Smith

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.

- Alexander McCall Smith

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

- Alexander Smith

I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in teaching history that went beyond memorizing dates and battles and all of that - basically, looking at the life of individuals throughout history, aided by fascinating primary sources.

- Alexandra Bracken

The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.

- Alexandra Cassavetes

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

- Alexandre Dumas

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

- Alexis Carrel

Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.

- Alexis Denisof

There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate that into my work.

- Alexis Knapp

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

- Alfred Adler

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

- Alfred de Vigny

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

- Alfred North Whitehead

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

- Alfred North Whitehead

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.

- Ali Smith

You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.

- Alice McDermott

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

- Alice Walker

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

- Alice Walker

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

- Alicia Silverstone

In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up.

- Alison Gopnik

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

- Alison Gopnik

I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.

- Alison Gopnik

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

- Alison Gopnik

You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.

- Alison Mosshart

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

- Alison Moyet

Audiences like to be made to feel that there is a world where things go right: where big emotions can happen and yet feel safe. This is why there is a constant tension in Hollywood between studios who want happy endings and writers who want to explore the human condition. There is a time and a place for both!

- Alison Owen

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

- Allen Ginsberg

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

- Alvar Aalto

We're not separate races. There's only one human race.

- Alveda King

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.

- Aly Khan

Human beings will justify anything.

- Alycia Debnam-Carey

I think generationally, as human progress does its thing, we are constantly impressed by the upcoming generation.

- Alyson Stoner

The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.

- Amal Clooney

I hate the idea that you somehow, as a human being, have to be put in a box. There's no reason why lawyers can't be fun - or actresses can't be serious.

- Amal Clooney

I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

- Amanda Palmer

I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.

- Amity Gaige

Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.

- Amity Shlaes

I've always believed that humans are good at heart. But there's always the exception.

- Amy Carlson

The human imagination can connect to practically anything.

- Amy Gerstler

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

- Amy Grant

I think human beings are funny, tricky things.

- Amy Landecker

As humans, we need to reach out for support.

- Amy Purdy

To be human is to be visible.

- Amy Sherald

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

- Amy Smart

History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

- Amy Waldman

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

- Anais Nin

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

- Anais Nin

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

- Anatoly Karpov

To be a champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

- Anatoly Karpov

I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.

- Andie MacDowell

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

- Andre Geim

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

- Andre Malraux

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

- Andre Norton

We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.

- Andrea Arnold

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

- Andrea Dworkin

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

- Andreas Gursky

Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

- Andrei Sakharov

There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect.

- Andres Iniesta

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

- Andrew Garfield

The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.

- Andrew J. Bernstein

I believe, I truly believe, that humans will be living off of this planet, at some point in the future. It's inevitable for us, and it seems like a reasonable and realistic progression for us as a human race. We won't last on this planet - not forever.

- Andrew J. Feustel

I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing.

- Andrew Lincoln

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

- Andrew Motion

When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.

- Andrew O'Hagan

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

- Andrew O'Hagan

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

- Andrew Pyper

Human love and desire is my bag.

- Andrew Sean Greer

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

- Andrew Weil

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

- Andrew Weil

The task is to influence and create a reaction in the audience. In my opinion, any reaction of a human being in the audience, I think this is great. It means we touched the person's soul.

- Andris Nelsons

I wouldn't want to make the same record over and over again or look the same or be the same. I think that's just human life in general, though.

- Andy Biersack

Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are not political opinions. They are non-negotiable human rights - hard fought and secured in America.

- Andy Dunn

At Bonobos, we believe that human beings are tired of shopping in stores.

- Andy Dunn

As a society, we must not allow human rights abuses to go unnoticed and undocumented; it is a vital mission to fight ignorance of these tragic events.

- Andy Dunn

Money talks, and when it starts to say goodbye, humans listen and act accordingly.

- Andy Dunn

I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career - avatars played by actors to say something about the human condition.

- Andy Serkis

Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know.

- Andy Serkis

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'

- Andy Serkis

I found a great mentor early on in my career, Dave Duffield - a legendary software innovator, great individual, and a wonderful leader and human being.

- Aneel Bhusri

I'm a shy human being.

- Ang Lee

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.

- Angela Bassett

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

- Angela Carter

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

- Angela Merkel

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

- Angelina Jolie

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

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

- Ann Nocenti

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

- Anna Lindh

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

- Anna Sui

Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.

- Anne Graham Lotz

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

I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.

- Anne Roiphe

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.

- Annette Bening

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

- Annette O'Toole

No greater problem is presented to the human mind.

- Annie Jump Cannon

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

- Annie Lennox

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

- Annie Lennox

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

- Annie Lennox

I've always been transgender, and I always will be. Having said that, my spirit is feminine. If you had to divide humanity into two groups, I would sit with the women.

- Anohni

Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways.

- Ansel Elgort

Problems only exist in the human mind.

- Anthony de Mello

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

- Anthony Doerr

Human nature is weak.

- Anthony Fauci

We need to know more about how group A strep interact with humans to cause so many different illnesses.

- Anthony Fauci

Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our enemies, Germany and Japan.

- Anthony Lewis

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.

- Anthony Lewis

Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.

- Anthony McCarten

I'm a gay rights supporter. I'm a human-rights campaign initiative person.

- Anthony Scaramucci

I should have the opportunity, if I need to let somebody go, to let the person go in a very humane, dignified way.

- Anthony Scaramucci

'Cause movies are human drama, that's it.

- Antoine Fuqua

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

- Antonia Fraser

All the early Facebook employees have their story of the moment when they saw the light and realized that Facebook wasn't some measly social network like MySpace but a dream of a different human experience.

- Antonio Garcia Martinez

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

- Antonio Tabucchi

For some time, I've said this issue of comprehensive immigration reform is not just an issue about immigration or human rights or civil rights, it's about our economy. You take 11 million people from out of the dark and into the light. The think tanks have surmised that you are talking about trillions of dollars infused into the economy.

- Antonio Villaraigosa

Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

- Archibald Hill

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

- Archibald MacLeish

Humans are complex, and I think in entertainment in general, it's very easy to put people in boxes.

- Ari Graynor

It's a profound thing to watch another human being come out of your body.

- Ariel Levy

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

- Aristotle

Even actors are human beings, so we have issues to deal with - physical, emotional, and mental.

- Arjun Kapoor

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

- Armstrong Williams

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

- Arthur Machen

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

- Arthur Miller

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

I've always thought of music as profound spirituality because you can use that music and that spirituality for personal gain or for the good of the world, the good of humanity, and for the good of your people.

- Arturo O'Farrill

If you're trying to solve a problem that is fundamentally important to human society, that's really important to our mission at Indie Bio.

- Arvind Gupta

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

- Ashley Montagu

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

- Ashley Montagu

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

- Ashwin Sanghi

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

- Asia Argento

Every religion curbs women rights to some extent. Some countries acted against religions and put a ban on wearing hijab, which was also a violation of human rights.

- Asma Jahangir

There was a time that human rights was not even an issue in this country. Then prisoners' rights became an issue.

- Asma Jahangir

Agencies must know who they are accountable to. If the agencies know who they are accountable to but we cannot say who they are accountable to, then really it is a very sad situation that is bound to be misused. It is bound to affect human rights.

- Asma Jahangir

I have noticed encouraging signs in the fight against religious intolerance, and I am impressed by the outstanding degree of human rights activism in India.

- Asma Jahangir

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

- Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

- Astro Teller

The BJP regards Muslims as Indians and human beings.

- Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

- Auberon Herbert

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

- August Wilson

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

Humans make mistakes.

- Austin Butler

I'm interested in seeing artists whom I respect who are very focused on the Black Lives Matter moment, bringing that into storytelling in a way that really amplifies the beauty and the humanity of people of color, and does it without having to wave a big sign that says, 'This is what we're doing.'

- Ava DuVernay

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

- Avery Brooks

When I was in Holland, the idea was, all cultures are equal and all are to be preserved. My idea was, no, all humans are equal, but not all cultures are equal.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.

- Ayad Akhtar

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.

- Azzedine Alaia

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

- B. B. King

He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body.

- Baha'u'llah

Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

- Ban Ki-moon

Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.

- Ban Ki-moon

I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

- Ban Ki-moon

Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

- Ban Ki-moon

Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.

- Ban Ki-moon

By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful, more prosperous and more just world for our succeeding generations.

- Ban Ki-moon

I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.

- Ban Ki-moon

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

- Barbara De Angelis

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

- Barbara Deming

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

- Barbara Kingsolver

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.

- Barbara Mikulski

Books are humanity in print.

- Barbara Tuchman

Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.

- Barbra Streisand

If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.

- Baron d'Holbach

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.

- Barry Commoner

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

- Baruch Spinoza

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

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

- Baz Luhrmann

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

- Beah Richards

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.

- Bella Thorne

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

- Ben Carson

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

- Ben Casnocha

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

- Ben Kingsley

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

- Ben Okri

It was humbling to play Mark Ashton. He was a political activist and a humanist, and there is incredible conviction in his vision. But when you're telling a political story, humour is crucial; otherwise, it can be in danger of becoming a bit preachy, and the audience can feel like they've got an agenda coming full steam at them.

- Ben Schnetzer

I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.

- Ben Silbermann

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

- Ben Whishaw

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

- Ben Whishaw

The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.

- Ben Whishaw

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

- Benjamin Disraeli

There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.

- Benjamin Robbins Curtis

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.

- Benjamin Tucker

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

I've studied psychology. I'm fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.

- Berglind Icey

I can't see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but there's no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.

- Bernard Beckett

I'm not downplaying my age - because humankind is such that people run away from their age. Especially women. Guys pretend not to care, but they do. Age is not a good thing to most human beings. But, being an alien, I embrace it.

- Bernard Hopkins

We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things.

- Bernhard Langer

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

- Bertrand Russell

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

- Beth Orton

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

- Bette Davis

I married a man who was jealous about everything. If I got enthusiastic about a book, about a flower, about a place, about a human being - jealous. 'Don't do it! Stop.' It was depressing, and I couldn't take it.

- Betty Parsons

I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.

- Betty White

I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.

- Beyonce Knowles

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

- Bianca Jagger

One of the biggest challenges for me is that I'm still a human being. I'm a very imperfect human being. I'm very open about the fact that I'm not trying to pretend to be better than anyone else.

- Bibi Bourelly

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

- Bill Ayers

I didn't know why dessert was invented or what function it was meant to perform. Raising livestock and the harvesting of grains are ancient activities, but when did humankind decide it also needed creme brulee?

- Bill Buford

What happens is when you have a kid, you are a unique human being, so you are going to have a unique experience. No one can really tell you what youre going to feel.

- Bill Burr

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

- Bill Gross

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

- Bill James

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

- Bill Maher

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

- Bill Nye

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

- Bill Nye

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

- Bill Nye

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

- Bill O'Reilly

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

- Bill Viola

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

- Billy Graham

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

- Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

- Billy Graham

I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad things and bad behavior to exist on the planet. Artists have a way of touching people and changing minds in a way that sometimes other mediums don't.

- Billy Porter

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

- Billy Porter

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

- Binyavanga Wainaina

There's no map to human behaviour.

- Bjork

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

- Bjorn Lomborg

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

Cee Lo is the coolest human being I have ever met in my life.

- Blake Shelton

We Catholics have been in the forefront in defending the dignity of the human person. Clericalism is a direct violation of human dignity.

- Blase J. Cupich

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

- Bo Bennett

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

- Bob Edwards

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

- Bob Feller

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

- Bob Graham

I believe in the power of the human spirit.

- Bob Harper

If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.

- Bob Ross

We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.

- Bob Schieffer

My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.

- Bobby Darin

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

- Bobby Fischer

I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.

- Bobby Seale

I became a human placebo.

- Bobby Sherman

My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.

- Bonnie Bassler

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

- Bono

Part of our human nature is finding new ways of being.

- Bozoma Saint John

Certainly another Brad Sherman might be annoying, but it isn't something society doesn't know how to deal with. But a new level of human being is something else.

- Brad Sherman

Everybody asks, 'What does 'Humans of New York' mean?' and I always say that I try to avoid putting any kind of message in the work even if it is a positive or optimistic message. The moment you do that, you're looking for certain people and words that fit into the world view you are trying to show, and it becomes preachy.

- Brandon Stanton

I'm a Yogi and a tea drinker, and having a gun is the last thing that one would expect of me as a human being.

- Brenda Strong

At Oculus, we're now looking at eye specialists, people who really understand how the human eye works, and how that affects human emotion.

- Brendan Iribe

For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just.

- Brendan Myers

Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who want to be part of the Pagan community, but who want to be a little more intellectual about their practices, and they really don't care about the 'woo' anymore.

- Brendan Myers

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

- Breyten Breytenbach

I'm an old soul. The blues, especially older blues, is the human element that kind of gives the music soul, and I think that maybe not enough people connect to the blues. It's a very powerful place to be; and if you can express that to an audience, I think that you can express a lot through that.

- Bria Skonberg

The phone is one hundred, one hundred and ten years old. There was a middle period where the government had a broad ability to surveil, but if you look at human history in total, people evolved and civilizations evolved with private conversations and private speech.

- Brian Acton

Technology has brought us further than man could ever imagine, and it makes all information available. But it might not do the same exact thing that one human being asking another human being might do.

- Brian Grazer

It's a simple quality of human nature that people prefer to choose to do things rather than be ordered to do them. In fact, as soon as you tell me I have to do something - give a speech, attend a banquet, go to Cannes - I immediately start looking for ways to avoid doing it.

- Brian Grazer

Gosh, for me, when I was 15 or 16 years old, I was just starting to understand ideas and film and things like that. And then, you go see a movie like 'The Matrix' that absolutely blows your mind. It's not just trying to entertain you, but it's also trying to explore something about human nature and ask some really deep questions.

- Brian J. Smith

Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.

- Brian K. Vaughan

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

- Brie Larson

I don't take roles that are 'just another role.' I'm interested in learning more about myself and about humanity. So it should change you by the time it's done.

- Brie Larson

I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I'm a human being.

- Brigitte Bardot

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

- Brigitte Bardot

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

- Brit Marling

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

- Brit Marling

In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.

- Bruce Dern

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

- Bruce Lee

In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.

- Bruce Lipton

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

- Bryant H. McGill

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

- Bryant H. McGill

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

- Bryant H. McGill

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

- Buzz Aldrin

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

- Buzz Aldrin

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

- Buzz Aldrin

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

- Buzz Aldrin

Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.

- Buzz Aldrin

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

- Buzz Aldrin

Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

- Caitlin Moran

How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

- Caitriona Balfe