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- I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), State of the Union address, January 20, 2004
- The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
- Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
- Agnes Macphail
- I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
- Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
- Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
- L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), Book: The Creation of Human Ability
- He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.
- David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
- [Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
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