Top 51 Human Affair Quotes
#1. The hardest, gladdest thing in the world is to cry Father! from a full heart . . . the refusal to look up to God as our father is the one central wrong in the whole human affair; the inability, the one central misery.
John Eldredge
#2. There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.
Albert Einstein
#3. War isn't declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
Woodrow Wilson
#4. Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept.
A.S. Byatt
#5. In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.
Mardy Grothe
#6. Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.
Jim Nollman
#7. For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair" ... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?
Salman Rushdie
#8. Unbelievably, while many non-governmental organizations like Amnesty International and America's Watch have denounced the human rights situation in Cuba, there has been a continuing love affair on the part of the media and many intellectuals with Fidel Castro.
Armando Valladares
#9. These are not vague inferences ... but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
Alexander Hamilton
#10. All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
Enoch Powell
#11. He was born of a human-fungal love affair that shook the court of Onddo. His mother was a human, a princess of the court, by the name of 'Agatha'. His father was the notorious pirate captain, AGARICUS AUGUSTUS - THE PRINCE.
Orrin Grey
#13. I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation
which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get about.
John Wyndham
#14. Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.
George Santayana
#15. No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.
Charles Grandison Finney
#16. The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.
Eric Hoffer
#17. The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.
Abraham Lincoln
#18. Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.
Herbert Spencer
#19. There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it.
[It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]
Francesco Guicciardini
#20. The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.
Archibald Hill
#21. [Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.
Desiderius Erasmus
#22. Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness ... For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.
Sherman Glenn Finesilver
#23. There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.
William H. Hastie
#24. Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
Plautus
#25. Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.
Isaac Barrow
#26. It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
Thomas Jefferson
#27. Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs
Alexander Hamilton
#28. Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#29. Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#30. Until now travel had always been a fraught affair. Each year until she was sixteen, it had been two weeks fighting with her sister in a caravan in Filey while her parents drank steadily and looked out at the rain, a sort of harsh experiment in the limits of human proximity.
David Nicholls
#31. Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. As far as I'm concerned, there's no better love affair.
Gloria Gaynor
#32. In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.
Eric Hoffer
#33. To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs
but a tribute nevertheless.
George Steiner
#34. For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
Terry Eagleton
#35. In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.
P.G. Wodehouse
#36. Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?
Robin Hobb
#37. It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
Pliny The Elder
#38. The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?
Michael Atherton
#39. Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.
Sidney Hook
#40. The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.
Ernest Lawrence
#41. I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.
Lin Yutang
#42. Biblical righteousness is more than a private and personal affair; it includes social righteousness as well ... Thus Christians are committed to hunger for righteousness in the whole human community as something pleasing to a righteous God.
John Stott
#43. Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
Plato
#44. Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.
Storm Jameson
#45. It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.
Anthony Daniels
#46. It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.
Alfred North Whitehead
#47. The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#48. Tearing a world down was a simple affair; the gravity of human nature tugged willingly. It was the building up afterward that proved complex. It was what to replace injustice with that very few gave thought to.
Hugh Howey
#49. Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings. There are two opposing forces, who fight each other until one of them wins, and you and I, my poor old Alain, have been knocked out too easily.
Irene Nemirovsky
#50. Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.
Hannah Arendt
#51. The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most ofthemlabour the greater part oftheir time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedomwhich remains to themso troubles themthat they use every exertion to get rid ofit.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
