The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes his life activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.

The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.

Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.