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Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Quote by Pierre Bayle about history, criminals, human imperfections, nothing

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Quote by Jodie Foster about cruelty, human imperfections

I believe that each human being has within himself or herself at least one poem or short story, or perhaps even a full length book.

Quote by Dee Brown about literature, faith, human imperfections, being

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Quote by Jane Fonda about opinion, power, human imperfections, being, contentment, people

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

Quote by Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin about will, power, faith, human imperfections, things

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Quote by Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin about literature, writers, soul, human imperfections

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

Quote by Sinclair Lewis about people, insults, humor, problems, common sense, sense, human imperfections, being

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

Quote by Amedeo Modigliani about opinion, human imperfections, real estate

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.

Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg about people, human imperfections, man

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Quote by Russell Hoban about language, history, human imperfections

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Quote by Jack Kerouac about people, dream, human imperfections

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

Quote by Nikolai Vasilievici Gogol about pasion, human imperfections

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Quote by Luigi Pirandello about nature, creation, imagination, human imperfections, work

To complain about dying is to complain about being human.

Quote by Jean de Rotrou about death, human imperfections, being

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Quote by Jules Romains about history, disaster, human imperfections

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Quote by Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser about art, soul, magic, human imperfections

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Quote by Alphonse de Lamartine about love, human imperfections, being

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Quote by Evelyn Waugh about art, symbol, destruction, magic, human imperfections

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Quote by Evelyn Waugh about mind, human imperfections

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

Quote by Michael Ende about life, heart, human imperfections, time