Quotes with semi-human

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  • Michael Harrington If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.
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  • Honoré de Balzac If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Octavio Paz If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Margaret Mead If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Bayard Rustin If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • George Eliot If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Freeman Dyson If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Carolyn See If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Barry Commoner If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • George Orwell If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby ''it.''
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • C. Wright Mills If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.
    Foreword, The Marxists (1962)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bill Goldberg If you don't want to investigate what you're passing judgment on, then it's your fault. And I believe that if people investigate Goldberg as a human being, I'm not such a bad guy.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Billy Joel If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • George Orwell If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Gabriel Heatter If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
    Gabriel Heatter
    American radio commentator and journalist (1890 - 1972)
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  • Shashi Tharoor Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.
    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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