Because of both hipster culture and Facebook culture, the human race is starting to resemble a school of hairy piranhas.
The hardest thing to do with an animated movie is to not make it feel synthetic: to feel like it's handmade, where you can sense the human hand in it.
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.
Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Throughout human history, some of our most influential inventors, entrepreneurs, and leaders have had disabilities. For example, Bill Gates, Sir Richard Branson, and Charles Schwab are all dyslexic, while scientist Stephen Hawking has used a wheelchair for decades.
Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.
Nature is not human hearted.
The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.
Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon Valley prophets are creating a new universal narrative that legitimises the authority of algorithms and Big Data.
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.
The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
