I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.
Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
The system of racial classification is fiction, and we need to thoughtfully evaluate whether perpetuating it rigidly or allowing fluidity across the spectrum best supports human rights and social justice.
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
Human cloning is coming.
I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.
I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
