Quotes with human

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  • Raymond Chandler It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Benjamin Banneker It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race...
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Andrew Cohen It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Charlotte Brontë It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Joseph Conrad It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Antonio Guterres It is, for me, clear that the world needs a United States that is engaged in security issues, in development issues, in human rights issues. The contribution of the United States for global affairs is absolutely crucial. And the cooperation with the U.N. is very important from our perspective.
    Antonio Guterres
    Portuguese politician and UN Secretary General (1949 - )
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  • Breyten Breytenbach 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
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Robert Lynd It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are human beings.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Barry Commoner 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
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Alfred Loisy It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
    Alfred Loisy
    French theologian (1857 - 1940)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bruce Cockburn It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • 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
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Eric Hoffer It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Anais Nin It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Will Rogers It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Philip Roth It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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