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Humans Quotes - Page 72

Suggesting evil is human doesn’t mean we can always understand it.

Suggesting evil is human doesn’t mean we can always understand it.

"Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero". Interview with Helen Whitney, www.pbs.org. 2002.

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

"What I know about women". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

You can't be a human without seeing.

Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.

Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.

Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.154

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). “A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism”

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.

Joseph Conrad (1999). “Heart of Darkness - Second Edition”, p.30, Broadview Press

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

The things that make us human often make us ill.

Jonathan Rosen (2010). “Eve's Apple: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan