Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Thomas Paine

I yearn for human contact & the casual online games afford me options to socialize without actually going there.

Frank Clarke

We're really hoping that she would vote against any budget that includes cuts in human services programs.

Bill Jordan

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Jon Ronson

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Murray Kempton

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Jacques Cousteau

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Olof Palme

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

Martin Buber

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

Angelina Grimke

We do not agree ... that the human rights of the victims are more important than the human rights of the terrorists.

Graham Watson

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

I've got a talent to act. No matter what any newspapers say about me I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on earth.

Jean claude Van Damme

There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy.

C. Fitzhugh

Human reproductive cloning should not now be practiced. It is dangerous and likely to fail.

Irving Weissman

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

Marquis De Custine

There's no map to human behaviour.

Angie Bjorklund

Distributors and filmmakers like me can see their films with real human beings.

James Schamus

Merely writing about him was unusual, but writing a profile, as if he were a human being, was groundbreaking.

Hank Klibanoff

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

Amy Smart

It makes it more human.

Keith Devlin

Coyotes, by nature, typically avoid human contact.

Warner Johnston

Politicians are just as human as anybody else.

David Blunkett

As a human being I was incensed. As a defense attorney, I was incensed.

Michael Lambert

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Simone Weil

A hundred percent of anything is impossible when you're dealing with human beings.

Bill Wise

More than 30 human remains have been handed over to be identified.

Manuel Luna

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Andrei Sakharov

Reading a book is a very human experience, and Betty engaged in the humanity of putting children and books together.

Joyce Meskis

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I'm more interested in the human condition than in governments and the politics they do.

Rafi Pitts

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

Billy Higgins

I am especially excited about giving computers common sense. Computers should be able to understand the emotions of humans. As computers begin to understand the human world, they can help us far more efficiently.

Frank Moss

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

John Huston

An island that is five, ten, or 20 acres, that's human-sized. Something you can walk around in an hour or two hours.

Cheyenne Morrison

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Thomas Brackett Reed

We're all just human. And it is possible for any of us to make a mistake -- and a mistake was made.

Steve Harmon

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Margaret Fuller

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Meryl Streep

Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet. --.

George B. Leonard

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

Francois Mauriac

Tony Dungy is as classy a human being as you will ever know. This is a tough one. I don't know how a team gets through that, to be honest.

Doc Rivers

To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give.

Tristan Bernard

What I am talking about is a bill which says this is the correct interpretation of the Human Rights Act.

Lord Falconer

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

Harry Lorayne

The defense of human rights has been, and continues to be, one of the principal goals of the foreign policy of this administration.

Cyrus Vance

I object to being characterized the way I have been characterized by people who don't have a clue as to who I am as a human being or who I am as a commander.

Robert Clark

The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

When you are as a human being in a survival mode, order disappears.

Harry Kim

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

Alexandre Vinet

I think most of the time it's met with great skepticism because murder is a deliberate act of one human against another.

Jenny Wieland

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

When you're up like that it's human nature just to be like, 'We've got this game. But we've got to stop doing that.

John Salmons

What happened to me should not happen to any human being, to my children, or to anyone else's children.

Abner Louima

He was very thorough, very energetic and very passionate, ... To him, every human being has a certain dignity.

James Logan

It's not strange for human beings to want to celebrate or be entertained by another human being.

Natalie Smith

War brings out the most negative emotional human responses on both sides.

Henk Middelraad

I'm happy that for the first time we will be allowed to enter the stadiums like ordinary human beings.

Parastoo Dokouhaki

A human being isn't an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

The sad fact of human nature is when something of this magnitude happens, people do finally pay attention.

Melody Heidel

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in no sport.

David Millar

The only model for studying human cancer is humans.

Ira Mellman

They keep coming out of the woodwork. The human suffering I've seen here is greater than anything I've ever been exposed to.

Terry Ebbert

We don't even know the mistakes it made in 1918 that allowed it to go human to human.

Robert Webster

These are human beings, that's kind of a biologically indisputable fact. As a human family, we do a lot better when we don't permit one to be destroyed.

Michael Sheedy

Folks were doing the very best they knew to do. It was human error.

Kathy Dickson

The human cost is far too great.

Theresa Brown

The human eye cannot keep up with that speed and power.

Arlen Kantarian

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

George Bataille

If our guys aren't enjoying this, they are not human. Although it will be even more exciting when they have on that actual Cardinals uniform on to play baseball for St. Louis. Ultimately, this is the goal, to get here.

Danny Sheaffer

This casts serious doubt on whether those marks are human footprints.

Michael Waters

With an increase in human traffic comes an increase in the types of behaviors that humans exhibit.

Jill Haynes

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Hesiod

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Max Planck

To err is human, but is feels divine.

Mae West

It's not that other business administrators aren't, but Fran is one of the most honest people I have ever met, in her work and as a human being.

Janet Jones

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Viktor Frankl

If a human being has been created through fertilization, we think that life should be respected.

Joe Pojman

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

Howard Lindsay

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

Paul J. Meyer

Genes are the blueprints for proteins, but proteins are where the action is in human life and health.

Akhilesh Pandey

They have to be treated as real human beings with their own issues and concerns, not something that is being prepared for future use.

John Lewandowski

You have a broad band of evolution. That?s what you would expect if the human lineage were single lineage.

Owen Lovejoy

Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.

Martin Mull

Who wants to be well-adjusted to injustice? What kind of human being do you want to be?

Cornel West

These are human beings; that's kind of a biologically indisputable fact.

Michael Sheedy

Human beings are very complicated, and there are a lot of interesting barriers we set up (to justify behaviors that aren't in our best interests). The key to advertising is not to bash them down with a battering ram but to coax out the positive behaviors.

Peggy Conlon

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Jane Austen

If they're not busy in real life with normal interaction, human interaction.

Catherine Butler

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.

Joan Chen

Since it's a human act that is creating this change, it is not only a scientific problem, it's a moral problem.

Jonathan Rose

To me, this was human error. We recovered from it last night, and we got accurate results last night.

Deborah Clark

In country music, the more human you are the better.

Sashya Comito

He allowed spectators to see his human side. He wasn't a chiseled athlete, like a Greek god or goddess.

John Tauer

Can't be sure. Players are human. It's got to bother you, just like it would bother anybody else. We just try to address it early so it won't be a distraction.

Jeff Horton

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Joseph Stalin

That gives me tremendous encouragement and optimism for the human race in general, that people choose to go off and do their own things.

Bruce Dickinson

A greater Albania, not the constitution not the human rights.

Orthodox Church

Most of these species have just begun to adapt to human environments. It's a cool natural experiment.

Joel Brown

It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses?

James Cameron

Our thoughts and prayers are with Fred Hoiberg and his family and his children, because there's not a finer human being around than Fred Hoiberg. But hey, we've got to make adjustments, and we've got some good players who will hopefully come in and fill the void.

Mark Madsen

When a human approaches the mother disappears down a hole, abandoning her young.

Graham Alexander

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

Avery Brooks

The important thing to note is that no human health effects are known from exposure to PFOA.

David Boothe

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

John Steinbeck

If he's been declared incompetent by justices in human rights trials, I don't see how these same courts will declare him competent for economic trials.

Juan Guzman

The gratitude of the nation to the Sovereign Arbiter of All Human Events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy.

James Polk

We chose the Arkansas River because it is so habitable there is so much human activity. Also, there is no screen of trees to block the view of the river and there are high banks.

Christopher Lasch

The justice system is a human system and it is fallible.

Rep. Michael Kainen

If there's evidence of human-to-human transmission, there will be small clusters. We are not at that stage.

Henk Bekedam

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

Peter Gay

In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.

William M. Holden

They are human beings, but they don't get treated as well.

Laura Lopez

People think that homeless people are not human beings and that it's OK to hurt them and, most importantly, they think they can get away with it.

Michael Stoops

They cut us along with Suicide Prevention Service and Community Human Services.

Jim Rear

We're breaking ground. Our voices are being heard. We deserve the same rights as everyone else. We deserve the American dream - a family, a home, a good job and to just be happy. We're human beings. Acknowledge us.

Sue Barker

The pollution (that) resulted from human activity may have created a haze which absorbs and deflects the sun's rays.

Yun Qian

We go beyond the literacy in our conversational English classes by meeting basic human needs.

Janet Smith

Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those.

Spencer Abraham

You try not to become part of the story, but you're a human being first, a journalist second.

Paul Slavin

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Margaret Atwood

It's strange, because you have to show discipline and be disciplined. But you also have to show them you are human, too.

Tony Chapman

It's recommended that health inspectors classify this food before it's made available for human consumption.

Andrew Titus

The sequencing of the pig genome is a scientific advance that will offer great benefits for consumers and human health.

Max Rothschild

There has never in human history been that many communications sources.

Jeff Hess

It's a human drama set against a sci-fi backdrop.

Chris Roland

"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Dag Hammarskjold

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

Konrad Adenauer

King Fool and the Human Rights Nitwits.

John Stokes

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

H. L. Mencken

This is a very, very exciting development for our company. We've never put these things in a human before. This is pioneering work.

Martin Mcglynn

We would like to see a comparative analysis of the double-track option and the cost-benefit analysis in financial and human terms of both.

Lloyd Smith

It amazes me that organs that piss/ Can give human beings such perfect bliss.

Irving Layton

Very inspiring, looking at the community through the eyes of human capital.

Rebecca Ryan

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

John Dos Passos

He made one huge mistake in the arrest of those human rights activists.

Basil Fernando

To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

Andy and Larry Wachowski

There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.

Neil Postman

Would throw sand into the gears of human progress.

Gregory Mankiw

The Beijing conference is where things are going to happen. We need to focus on human health and containment. If we don't focus on avian flu it's going to ruin these countries, materially and economically, and move to Europe and Africa.

Patrick Deboyser

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

Ashley Montague

There is no chance. We're all human beings here. There's no chance humanly possible.

Paul Stankowski

Everyone had really good things to say and came out with the message that we were trying to convey, which wasn't about being straight or gay, but about being a human.

Doug Schultz

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

David Sarnoff

I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse.

Christopher Ricks

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Wendy Carlos

Besides the human costs, it is a very expensive disease.

Stephanie Nelson

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Sir Winston Churchill

The trick for the defense is to personalize him -- to try to put a human face and give a human shape to a monster.

Joe Russoniello

The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.

Elizabeth Stone

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

Frank Knox

This case is really about avarice, it's about greed, and it's about human frailty.

Fran Humphries

He's up to having a life like a normal human being.

Dr. Greg Simon

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

Richard Stallman

The images that have been given about human cloning are images of fading copies or armies of clones or defects of animals. That's all we have shown the public.

Brigitte Boisselier

It's not fit for human habitation, let alone animals.

Dennis Mccullough

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

George Orwell

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Plutarch

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.

George Orwell

We've done a hell of a job saving what is left, but the human impact is surrounding these areas.

Steve Morrison

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Loren Eiseley

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.

George Orwell

The human resources directors are just tearing their hair out.

Beth Busch

The future is a boot smashing a human face forever.

George Orwell

It would be too easy for countries that are habitual violators of human rights to get onto the Human Rights Council.

Kevin Moley

People grow and mature as human beings, and the same is true for musicians.

Steve Richards

It was just a human error. It happened and it will happen again.

Michael Hourigan

Like a paper chart, errors get in, ... There's still a human factor.

Richard Goldstein

Community affairs or human relations and even that would have been and few between.

Cornel West

Fat tissue is the bamboo of human tissue. They're in abundance, replenishable and easily acquired.

Adam Katz

He was never a black-and-white embodiment of someone searching for ideals, but was human and fallible.

Michael Musto

They were a triumph of the human spirit.

Jack Lengyel

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Matt Blunt

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

Problems only exist in the human mind.

Anthony De Mello

Edinburgh are on the way forward finally and partly because we have a good Chief Executive and good Human Relations bosses.

Todd Blackadder

It's getting to the point of survival for the human species on the planet.

Brian Lapointe

Until the human rights of those affected can be guaranteed we recommend that the construction of the dam is halted.

Hina Jilani

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.

Louis Bromfield

The outpouring of human kindness has been incredible. Seriously, without it we wouldn't have anything.

Jeanne Brooks

Human face on how all this happened.

Rusty Hardin

Human resources had to figure out how to do this. There was some paperwork. We've never done this before - let people go and then hire them back in two weeks.

George Douglas

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Vittorio Alfieri

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

Antonio Machado

A human vaccine is in the works.

Len Conrad

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Guy Debord

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Alexander Alekhine

There's so much that divides us as Christians. This gives us a common ground. I'm big on bringing people together at table. There something very human about that.

Rev. Angelo Arrando

You couldn't ask for a better group of human beings helping another group of human beings in a time of need.

George Payne

I never met a human being in my life who didn't like this kid.

Dennis Weaver

Every human longs for peace and love.

Hiawatha

That human bond has to be there. It can't become impersonal. These are people they deal with everyday.

Bruce Harvey

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.

Joseph Farrell

If we go and bring universal access to all human knowledge it will be remembered as one of the great things humankind has ever done.

Brewster Kahle

If we could make that wish a reality, we could have the single greatest effect on human health.

Michael Eriksen

The question that you all have to ask yourself is, do you think you could ever vote to execute a human being?

Alfred Delucchi

The government is really mixed up about this, to detain all the human rights activists during the visit of the human rights commissioner.

Hou Wenzhuo

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

George Soros

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

Anne Perry

I don't think this is safe yet for human reproduction.

Michael West