H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.”
“Human rights without responsibility, without a sense of decency, a sense of compassion, is not good enough for a society to flourish... We need to broaden our scope from the legalistic language to the language of the heart.”
“Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.”
“Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.”
“Human rulers get poisoned or decapitated or simply voted out of office all the time, as our set of personal desires, our chimpanzee DNA, rears its individualistic head.”
Source: Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
“Human's" are the Worst creation of the Creator/s or GOD '**if Exists'. The only reason behind all the effects & destruction in this planet. i.e Earth without, only 3 Generation of single Homosapiens life can be come to it's normal place, is enough for Mother Nature.”
“Human’s aren’t concerned with reality, merely their perceptions of it.”
Source: Atlas
“Human's biggest friend and enemy is his/her mind.”
“Human's eyes have evolved primarily to see the rich and wealthy: His eye sees a rich artist, but not an old and poor fruit seller! He is curious about the life of a rich artist, not the life of a poor salesman!”
“Human's greatest attribute lies not in the heart nor the brain, but in the potential of overcoming fear while nurturing love.”
“Human's intrinsic nature manifest in it's misunderstandings”
“Human's living essence is humanity, without humanity is something else than the human.”
“Human's living essence is the humanity, without humanity is something else than the human.”
“HUMAN'S LOVE and POLITICS be like IF YOU DON'T LOVE ME, I WILL HATE YOU”
“Human's mind is everything, he becomes what he thinks all the time.”
“Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . .”
“Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!”
“Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.”
Source: Theological texts
“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“Human sanity was a poor, fragile thing at best, she thought. Hatred stupidity devotion greed the four horsemen of the new apocalypse. Yet she loved these wrecked people and wanted to save them from the dark jinn who fed, watered and made manifest the darkness within themselves. To love one human being was to begin to love them all. To love two was to be hooked forever, helpless in the grip of love.”
Source: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“Human science is an uncertain guess.”
“Human search for unknown is an unquenchable thirst. For an artist, it is even more suicidal which she or he may deceitfully call as an adventure or simply an exploration of truth. Whatever may be called, it has all the conceits to give birth to the likes of Frieda Kahlo, Kafka, Van Gogh or even Sarah Kane.”
“Human security comes only with human rights and the rule of law. Human rights are the basis for creating strong and accountable states without which there can be no political stability or social progress.”
“Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.”
“Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.”
“Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.”
“Human ‘senses’ have a hierarchy as far as loss, and taste and smell rarely made the news or a made-for-TV movie. Most people are terrified of losing sight or going deaf. Losing the ability to touch is a horrible part of paralysis. But smell and taste? Not newsworthy.”
Source: When We Lost Touch
“Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.”
Source: Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things
“Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.”
Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma
“Human sexuality includes more than hormones, organs, and orgasms; it runs through the psychic and spiritual ranges of our lives. We experience our sexuality on the spiritual level as a yearning for another person. We want to reach out and stretch ourselves into the depths of another. We want to bring the other person into the orbit of our deepest selves. We want to probe into the mystery of the other.”
Source: Sex for Christians: the limits and liberties of sexual living
“Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.”
Source: The world according to Garp
“Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.”
“Human skill development in any nation is key for economic growth.”
“Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.”
Source: The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology
“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.”
“Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them.”
“Human societies train people to "keep a stiff upper lip" and to "be strong" by which they mean the person should endure negative emotions. This is bad advice. Several branches of science have been studying human thriving. The results, when compiled, point to the fact that people thrive when they feel emotionally good and suffer when they do not.”
“Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.”
“Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.”
Source: Witness
“Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.”
“Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.”
“Human Society Has Made Incredible Strides In Science And Technology Yet In Spite Of What Appears An Unstoppable Success March, A Small Poisonous Arrow Of Time-Wasting Obsession Could Be Our Weakness, Our Downfall”.”
“Human society has to work to survive. Our food, clothing, and shelter are won by work and, as every parent knows, the next generation is raised by work. Society is, before all else, a collective effort to ensure its own physical continuity.”
Source: How the World Works: The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day
“Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.”
“Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.”
“Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes the rise of a priesthood, and the independent thinker is met with punishment in this world and the threat of eternal damnation hereafter. Even today it is from the religious side that the greatest danger to freedom of thought comes. Religion is the last thing that man will civilise.”
“Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds.”
Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts”