H Quotes
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“Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.”
“Human Crew had been a group formed to defend the rights of normals against freaks. At least that was the Human Crew line. Most people now saw Human Crew as a straight-up hate group.
Lance grabbed Turk’s shoulder and practically yanked him up off the stinking couch where he lay. “Turk, listen, man, listen to me: don’t you see what this means?”
Turk did not see what it meant, or at least not whatever Lance thought he should see. Turk mostly disliked Lance. They were friends, kind of, but only because they’d both been with Zil and riding high. And now they were reduced to doing the worst work Albert could find for them: digging slit trenches for kids to go in, and then covering them up when they were full.
Cesspool diggers. The Crap Crew, kids called them.
And they had to kiss Albert’s butt because otherwise they didn’t eat. They’d been lucky they weren’t exiled. Turk had talked the council out of sending them off to live in the wild. He’d begged, that was the truth of it. He’d convinced them that it was better to find a place for him and the others from Human Crew.
He’d put all the blame for the fire on anyone but themselves. Kept saying, “It’s not our fault, guys, not me and Lance and all, we were forced by Zil and Hank. Hank was scary, man, you know that. You know he was a creep and he would have shot us or messed us up.”
Turk had whined like a baby. And wept. And in the end convinced that smug wetback Edilio, and especially Albert, that they wouldn’t make trouble anymore, ever again, lessons learned, their lives all turned around now.
The Human Crew became the Crap Crew. And harsher names as well. A laughingstock.”
Source: Plague
“Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.”
“Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.”
Source: Intensity: A Novel
“Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless.”
Source: The Bone Clocks
“Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals are made of flesh and blood like us, that they suffer the same pains as us, that they deserve the same respect as us and that their continuous slaughter should not be part of human entertainment.”
“Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.”
“Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.”
“Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent, ontogeny repeats phylogeny, because children go through something like the same thing.”
“Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the case that all such experiments are of equal merit or value. Some cultures - and modernity is patently one - have managed to transmute consciousness into the "disease" that Nietzsche called it, the self-affliction of a self-centeredness that has purged itself of all vestiges of wisdom and value.”
“Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination.”
“Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.”
“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.”
“Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base...”
“Human desires cannot be extinguished. Even Buddha, with all his sweet teachings, is not immune to seeking fame and followers. Thus, leaving behind a continuing legacy.”
“Human desires were responsible for the situation they were in.”
Source: The Dawn of Yangchen
“Human destiny depends on depth of education.”
“Human destiny is an episode between two oblivions.”
“Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.”
“Human destiny is not controlled by humans alone anymore”
Source: The Polymorph
“Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.”
“Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.”
“Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.”
“Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.”
“Human dietary variation, including our ability to intensify carbohydrate-rich resources, is known to be a key evolutionary strenght. Diet and environment are key drivers of our evolutionay past, and a transition to agriculture among many populations worldwide has had far-reaching implications for our foodways and health.”
Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach
“Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.”
“Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.”
Source: Religion and Art
“Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.”
“Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.”
“Human Dignity has five characteristics : A playful curiosity,a capacity for dreams, a sense of humor to achieve and correct those dreams, a certain flexibility and spontaenity of behavior, a capacity to fight for and save those dreams !”
Source: Nucleus - Power Women: Lead from the Core
“Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.”
Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
“Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.”
“Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.”
“Human dignity is more precious than prestige.”
“Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.”
“Human dignity should be without borders.”
“Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.”
“Human diversity may be great when it comes to cuisine and poetry, but few would see witch-burning, infanticide or slavery as fascinating human idiosyncrasies that should be protected against the encroachments of global capitalism and coca-colonialism.”
Source: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that cost us much, ensnared us in our own designs, given us a few boasts to make about our courage and genius, but all the same it is an illusion.”
“Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has cost us much, ensnared us in our own designs, given us a few boasts to make about our courage and genius, but all the same it is an illusion.”
Source: Under western skies: nature and history in the American West
“Human dynamism cannot be manipulated or switched on like that of a machine. It cannot be engineered or programmed. Human beings are created, not constructed – that is why they love to create their own reality. Human action cannot be explained by the laws of thermodynamics or by that of molecular biology. The wellspring of human action comes from the human spirit. The dwelling space of this spirit is our being.”
Source: The Other 99%: You Can Dare To Lead
“Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.”
“Human efforts driven by ideas of glory, greatness and conscience, shall change the world, not wishes and metaphysical delusions of vibrations and light waves.”
Source: Let The Poor Be Your God
“Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.”
“Human ego and drunk poets have ruined the powerful concept of soul and turned it into a flowery notion.
Your character (body-mind) can function on its own. Soul doesn't do anything. It just witnesses what the character does. The character would go on as per its script even if your soul weren't here to witness it.”
“Human emotion is not a linear experience. That which provokes emotion in one may provoke little, if anything, in another.”
Source: Ghost
“Human emotions and stories are complex and do not always conclude with a happy ending or an uplifting moral of the story. Life unfolds with its share of pain, transformation, creativity, and new beginnings - often amidst a maze of personal struggles confronted in private. The alchemy of personal growth is not always accompanied by magic or sudden enlightenment; rather, it evolves through layers of effort and accumulated experience over time. Only in hindsight the path may reveal its light, and it does not necessarily feel easier.”
Source: Coffee Stains On My Books: Poetry collection
“Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.”
“Human emotions are notes on a scale…each one has sound…smothering or burying that sound will only make the hum inside of you unbearable.”