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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke

All human behavior is either an act of love
or a cry for love. — Stan Dale

He who makes God act humanly, declares human activity to be divine[.] — Ludwig Feuerbach

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth — Jim Harrison

Almost every important human encounter boils down to the act, and the art, of asking. — Amanda Palmer

Health is a human necessity; health is a human right — James Lenhart

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform. — Carl Bereiter

There is no thought, no word, no act, and no area of human life that is not affected by sin. — Joel R. Beeke

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? — Eleanor Roosevelt

The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist. — Lynsey Addario

The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs. — Keith Teare

War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will. — Leo Tolstoy

The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance. — Rae Foley

It is widely said "Think globally, act locally" ... well the disaster happens when people do the opposite. — Sameh Elsayed

It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have! — Gilda Radner

I know that my future will be better than my past 'cos I believe & will act on my belief. — Gladys Lawson

Sometimes, the most courageous act a human can do is to let somebody love them — Michael Xavier

The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions. — Brian Solis

Yet her father had taught her that failing to act in the face of human suffering is inhuman. — Corban Addison

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me. — Jerzy Kosinski

The making of a human likeness on film is a political act. — Allan Sekula

What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else — Seth Godin

I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it. — Theresa May

sacralized, violence made sacred in the very act of being expelled; or still, human violence transformed from bad and destructive — Cesareo Bandera

We are people; human fucking beings, alive and kicking and wonderful in our weirdness. We are not spoons. And we should not act like we are". — Rasmus Hammarberg

To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Make her smile, make her laugh and make her happy; because this is the only Truth, Meaning & Beauty act any human can ever achieve. — Sameh Elsayed

One thing I've learnt about humans: you can't judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small. — Dianna Hardy

In the face of such terror and dehumanization, human passion itself was an act of defiance. — Guillermo Del Toro

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances. — Mahatma Gandhi

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. — H.L. Mencken

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. — Pope Paul VI

Hate springs from fear. Violence is released hatred. Behind every hateful crime and act of human brutality is an admission of fearfulness. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The human journey is a continuous act of transfiguration. — John O'Donohue

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act. — Geoffrey Wood

What Richard Selzer, M.D. once wrote of surgery is true of therapy: only human love keeps this from being the act of two madmen. — Thomas Lewis

Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race. — Dean Karnazes

If you make mistakes, if you act like a human being- I will love you no matter. — Leo Buscaglia

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have. — Robert Frost

Religion gives inspiration to act well. Not only that, it gives inspiration to the arts and to many other activities of human beings. — Richard Feynman

It seemed like an original act, the very kindest act of being human, that he listened. — Sue Woolfe

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. — Spiro Kostof

Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential. — Frances Lear

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth. — Theodore Parker

[T}he sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily. — Erich Fromm

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity. — Vartan Gregorian

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act. — Aristotle.

The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act. — Frank Barron

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons. — P.D. James

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth — Desmond Tutu

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart. — Yakov Smirnoff

There was something about the act of killing that could bring out everything primitive and not quite human within a man. — C.S. Harris

Art is the act of triggering deep memories of what it means to be fully human. — David Whyte

To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder. — Gore Vidal

You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress. — Bernard Baruch

Don't act like a protagonist Raghu, be human," she said.
"Like Salman?" I asked and chuckled, she didn't react though. — Kavipriya Moorthy

Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human things. — Hozier

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act. — Stanley Milgram

Try to act like a human, if you're not a one yet — R.Gayan Priyankara

Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace. — Thomas C. Oden

Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build from a vision practically anything; fundamentally it is a human, creative act. — Jeffry A Timmons

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and ... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche. — Jesse Plemons

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. — Erich Fromm

Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives — Abba Eban

The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender. — Mariah Nelson

There are very dark times when even basic human altruism must be an intentional act of rebellion.

--I Am Fire and Air — William Anthony

What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said. — Susan Beth Pfeffer

That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery. — Stephen King

God is hidden in vocations that bear authority. But that puts the pressure on human beings exercise that authority to act with God's justice and grace — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. — Terry Pratchett

I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want to act. — James Duval

We're really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. I — Terry Pratchett

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government. — Thomas Jefferson

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are. — George Meredith

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object. — Thomas Paine

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right. — Teri Reynolds

Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right. — Ali Sina

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being. — Margaret Mead

During challenging times and when impassioned to act, human beings can be capable of miracles. — Fabien Cousteau

We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters. — Caspar Henderson

Jealousy is a normal human emotion. When people act on that emotion, they then become a hater. — Ron Baratono

I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being. — Jim Butcher

Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals. — Arlene J. Chai

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men. — Simone De Beauvoir

I'm dying to know all about this mystical creature that got you to act human for once. — Jay Crownover

Don't be surprised when you see people you thought you knew act weirdly. People change. We change. Even the world change. — Sylvia L'Namira

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. — Bayard Rustin

If you ain't scared," Alby said, "you ain't human. Act any different and I'd throw you off the Cliff because it'd mean you're a psycho. — James Dashner

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness. — Byron Katie

Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The largest question facing the human race is not when will you learn, but when will you act on what you've already learned. — Neale Donald Walsch

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience — Erich Fromm

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them. — Rollo May

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge. — David Suzuki

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life. — Hans Jonas

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life ... but what is that something? — Antoine De Saint-Exupery