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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Brooks Mel

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Ciardi John

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

Compton-Burnett Dame Ivy 1884-1969

A Family and a Fortune

Well, of course, people are only human ... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

Cosby Bill 1937

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Davis William T.

Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.

Dubcek Alexander 1921-1992

... we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

Eliot T. S. 1888-1965

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

Ellis Havelock 1859-1939

The sun, moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.

France Anatole 1844-1924

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

Freud Sigmund 1856-1939

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

Fucik Julius

To be a man will continue to demand a heroic heart as long as mankind is not quite human.

Gibbon Edward 1737-1794

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774

The Traveller

How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!

Gregg Alan

The human race has had long experience and a find tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

Harlech Lord (David Ormsby Gore) 1918-1985

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

Hewes Henry

To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need.

Huxley Aldous 1894-1963

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

Kant Immanuel 1724-1804

The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is woman. That she a human being is of no concern to him.

Keats John 1795-1821

Letter to Benjamin Bailey

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Lamb Charles 1775-1834

Essays of Elia ‘The Two Races of Men'

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.

Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519

Human subtlety ... will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Lynd Robert 1879-1949

It may be the games are silly. But, then, so are human beings.

Malraux André 1901-1976

La Condition humaine.

The human condition.

Malraux André 1901-1976

Les Noyers d'Altenburg

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

Mann Thomas 1875-1955

A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body; therein lies inhumanity and his debasement.

May Rollo

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

Milton John 1608-1674

‘Il Penseroso'

Hail, divinest Melancholy,
Whose saintly visage is too bright
To hit the sense of human sight;
And therefore to our weaker view,
O'erlaid with black staid wisdom's hue.

Moliére 1622-1673

Tartuffe

I am not the less human for being devout.

Morris Desmond

The Human Zoo

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Orwell George 1903-1950

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

Paz Octavio

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

An Essays on Criticism

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

An Essays on Man

Hope springs eternal in the human breast
Man never is, but always to be blest.

Pottier Eugene 1816-1887

‘L'Internationale'

C'est la lutte finale
Groupons-nous, et, demain,
L'Internationale
Sera le genre humain.
This is the final conflict: let us form up and,
tomorrow, the International will encompass the
human race.

Raleigh Sir Walter Alexander 1861-1922

‘Wishes of an Elderly Man'

I wish I loved the Human Race;
I wish I loved its silly face;
I wish I liked the way it walks;
I wish I liked the way it talks;
And when I'm introduced to one
I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970