"No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings."
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"The violin - that most human of all instruments."
"Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself."
"Change the economic base and you will change human beings."
"Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag."
"Having respect for animals makes us better humans."
"We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general."
"What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human."
"Don’t get addicted to being human. This is only temporary."
"Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant."
"Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know."
"One does not become fully human painlessly."
"Custom is the great guide to human life."
"All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings."
"I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being."
"I recognize no rights but human rights."
"My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them."
"You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it."
"Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose."
"The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross."