Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the race.

-Adams, Henry Brooks
  Letter to Charles Francis  Adams,  Jr,11  Apr.

He long ago learned to eschew the little turf-dances of human encounter.

-Allen, Henry Southworth
  Of Brent Scowcroft, National Security Council adviser to George Bush. In the Washington Post, 3  Jan.

   You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humanösuper-humanöand also being only too human. But there just aren't many great figures around now, so the tragic mechanisms can't work.

-Amis, Martin Louis
  Explaining why only comedy can reflect contemporary reality. Quoted in an interview in The Scotsman,7  Apr.

O marciano encontrou-me na rua e teve miedo de minha impossibilidade humana. Como pode existir, penseu consigo, um ser que no existir po‹  e sem tamanha anula c° a‹  o de existe"  ncia? The Martian met me in the streets and was frightened by my human impossibility. He wondered how such a being could exist who could not exist without unmaking so much existence. 16

-Andrade, Carlos Drummond de
Li c° a‹  o de coisas,'Science Fiction'.

It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own- goal scored by the human race against itself.

-Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise
  In the Daily  Telegraph, 27  Jan.

   Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o  u' il doit enfin accepter d'e"  tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.

-Anouilh,Jean
  Antigone.

I believe every human has a finite number of heart- beats.I don't intend towasteanyof minerunning around doing exercises.

-Armstrong, Neil A(lden)
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

   We expect the ticking movement of the human timepiece to be revealed.

-Aslet, CliveWilliam
  In Country Life,10 Nov, reviewing  Jonathan Dimbleby The Prince of  Wales:  A Biography (1994).

The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  New Atlantis (published posthumously,1627).

The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Of Solomon's House, the centre of Bacon's scientific utopia. New Atlantis (published1627).

Je ne supporterai plus d'e"  tre un homme, je n'essaierai plus. I can no longer bear to be human and I will no longer try.

-Beckett, Samuel
Molloy, Malone Meurt.

No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.

-Berlin, Sir Isaiah
  The Crooked Timber of Humanity,'The Decline of Utopian Ideals in the West'.

Whites must be made to realise that theyare only human, not superior.It'sthesamewith Blacks.Theymust be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

-Biko, Stephen
  In the Boston Globe, 26 Oct.

For Mercy has a human heart Pity a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Innocence,'The Divine Image'.

And all must love the human form, In heathen,Turk or Jew; Where mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Innocence,'The Divine Image'.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

-Blake,William
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,'The Argument'.

God appears and God is light To those poor souls who dwell in night, But does a human form display To those who dwell in realms of day.

-Blake,William
  Milton,'And Did Those Feet In  Ancient Time'.

To be human at all† we must stand fast a littleöeven at the risk of being heroes.

-Bolt, Robert Oxton
  Thomas More.  A Man for All Seasons.

Then gently scan your brother Man, Still gentler sister Woman; Tho'they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human.

-Burns, Robert
  'Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous', stanza 7.

   I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.

-Bush, GeorgeW(alker)
  Speaking in Saginaw, Michigan, 29 Sep.