Quotes with human

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  • Henry David Thoreau We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Archibald Macleish We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Bryant Gumbel We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Arthur Peacocke We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Noam Chomsky We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Albert Einstein We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Buzz Aldrin We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Malcolm X We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bill Moyers We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Ben Okri We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Carl Sagan We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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  • Ban Ki-moon We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Kofi Annan We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
    We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century (2015) 68
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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