| Author |
Quotes |
| Herman Hesse | Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. |
| Holden Caulfield | It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. |
| Homer | He held his seat; a friend to human race. |
| Homer | Respect us, human, and relieve us, poor. |
| Indira Gandhi | We have believed--and we do believe now--that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. |
| James Russell Lowell | Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'ything thet's done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same. |
| James Thomson | For nothing human foreign was to him. |
| Jean Baudrillard | If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it. |
| Jeanette Desor | Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans anywhere and they'll thrive--only the rat does as well. |
| Joseph Fabry | The human spirit is your specifically human dimension and contains abilities other creatures do not have. Every human is spiritual; in fact, spirit is the essence of being human. You have a body that may become ill; you have a psyche that may become disturbed. But the spirit is what you are. It is your healthy core. |
| Joseph R Krutch | A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour. |
| Kalan | Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding |
| Martin Esslin | The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness. |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. |
| Muhammad Yunus | The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way? |
| Paul West | Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice. |
| R M Baumgardy | Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance. |
| Rebecca West | If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.". |
| Robert Browning | Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. |
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