We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Precaution is better than cure.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.