The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.
The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
I think human societies tend to be problematic.
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.
I don't see coming to Kerala as a commercial exercise; it's a human venture. Every film I make, I come here. I am the prodigal son.
When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete and begin to focus angrily on one another.
Because of Iran's support for terrorism, disrespect for human rights, and nuclear proliferation, it has been under U.S. and international sanctions for decades - and companies have been fined billions for circumventing those sanctions.
As human beings, we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions, to judge people too quickly, and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration.
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
Pudding is not a human right.
When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely 'take pity' on them. They puncture the illusion of the unanimous victimization that foundational myths use as a crisis-solving and reordering device of human communities.
I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.
Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
