H Quotes
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“Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.”
Source: The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years
“Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives”
“Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.”
Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
“Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
“Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.”
“Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.”
“Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.”
“Human beings with all their faults and strengths constitute the mechanism of a social movement. They must make mistakes and learn from them, make more mistakes and learn anew. They must taste defeat as well as success, and discover how to live with each. Time and action are the teachers.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.”
“Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.”
“Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.”
Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self
“Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in numbers except our own wish. Since I first started making television programs, the population of the world has increased three times. That's an extraordinary notion. Can it increase four times? Can it increase five times? The Earth is a finite size. So a point will eventually come when we run out of food, when we run out of space and when we will have destroyed most of the natural world. So ought we to do something about it before that happens?”
“Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems.”
“Human beings, from a mathematical perspective, are fairly limited. Two and three dimensions, maybe five, and we're OK.”
“Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.”
“Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.”
“Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It is certain that people would understand one another better and love one another more if they would admit to one another how lonely they were, how sad they were in their tormented, anxious longings and feeble hopes.”
“Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.”
Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem
“Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.”
“Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.”
Source: Finding time & other delicacies
“Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.”
Source: The Guns of August: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War
“Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.”
Source: Will the Real Me, Please Stand Up?: Twenty-Five Guidelines for Good Communication
“Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.”
“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.”
“Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.”
“Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible.”
Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
“Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.”
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
Source: Last Chance To See
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
“Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.”
“Human beings. People's stories. That's really what gets me excited.”
“Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.”
“Human believe what they want to believe and individual could believe according to his mind that why human never has any agreement on one ideology.”
Source: HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good
“Human believes in aliens but alien won't believe in humans”
“Human bias ranges from the destructive to what seems to be benign, but benign bias is still a dragging force on our humanity. How we manage our bias is the key to progressing as a society. - Tom Golway”
“Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.”
“Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.”
“Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)”
Source: Selected poems
“Human body is a hanging garden too. It hangs from the sky with feet touching the earth.
The same way tree hangs from the earth with it’s leaves touching the sky.”
“Human brain is a tool, which have answers of every questions.”
“Human brain is fundamentally racist, for every brain is born with tribalism embedded in them meant for self-preservation. It takes a lot of resolve and ceaseless, civilized self-correction to break free from that tribalism.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“Human brain is the most astonishing transdimensional engineering of Mother Nature, from outside it's just a 3 pound lump of goop, but inside, the very fabric of spacetime bursts into existence.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes, and a Life of the Author
“Human Bulldozer (The Sonnet)
I am no Gandhi, that I'd sit quietly and spin a wheel,
While people suffer in the clutches of imperialism.
I am no Guevara either, that I would shoot anyone,
Who looks suspicious, in my revolution for freedom.
Gandhi and Guevara are two extremes of human struggle,
One glorifies submission, another heralds new oppression.
Neither is fit for an infant world aiming to be civilized,
For one lacks backbone, the other weaponizes assumption.
We may take a little from Gandhi, a little from Guevara,
Without rigidity we may administer them accordingly.
I am an accountable human living in a world run by biases,
So most times I'll keep quiet and act as a harmless dummy.
But whenever inhumanity goes overboard wreaking havoc,
The human bulldozer will rise to cleanse every epoch.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“HUMAN CALL ME AS DEVIL; HOWEVER, DEVILS CALL ME AS GOD”
“Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens”
“Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and health by weighing the benefits and costs. Benefits include cultural and other non-monetary gains along with improvement in earnings and occupations, while costs usually depend mainly on the foregone value of the time spent on these investments.”