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  • [The blame for the future 'plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for the profound social upheavals which their own work primarily has brought about in human relationships.

  • Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

    Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “Papers and Journals”, p.62, Penguin UK
  • I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

    FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 31, 2011
  • Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

    Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”
  • The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

  • Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.

  • The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

    Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”
  • At first, I thought 'this series is going to be all about death and desecration,' but instead became a more complex landscape of human relationships. I hope I put something of these feelings into the portraits that I made of the characters, which were landscapes in themselves. An irony in the subject of crystal meth is how beautifully it resembles the desert sky.

    "The day when Bill Murray got festive and Belle & Sebastian went techno" by Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2014.
  • Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

    Ego   Half   Pulling Away  
    Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.18, Vintage
  • Human relations tend to be more difficult when you're dealing with someone who weighs 30 kilograms more than you do. That's when you worry about whether a well-meaning gesture could produce complications. We have no problems with countries like Madagascar or Bolivia, for example. But Germany is our neighbor and we have a shared past. Besides, Germany is powerful and ambitious and more than four times as large as we are. It makes complete sense that we would act cautiously. It's simply Realpolitik.

    Country   Powerful   Past  
    "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.
  • If I have learned anything about the purpose, meaning, and significance of life over the years, I have learned that, for a Christian, it is not found in any job, even a job like mine. It is not found in any human relationship, no matter how important. Nor is it found in any accomplishment, no matter how significant. Meaning, purpose, and significance are found only by aligning our lives with God's purposes in lives committed to following Jesus Christ.

    Richard Stearns (2014). “Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished”, p.371, Thomas Nelson
  • All human relationships must be purchased with money.

    George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace
  • If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other-while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity-then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do-even using so-called good human relations techniques-will be perceived as manipulative.

    Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
  • I have a life, I have a wife. I have an adult son who I'm very close to, and friends. I go hiking almost every day, four to six miles. In the summer, I'm out surfing or swimming. I think that real, human relationships with people mostly balance dark places in my work.

    Summer   Real   Swimming  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

    Peace   Real   War  
  • Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There are no drugs that improve mental function, self-understanding, or human relations. Any drug that affects mental processes does so by impairing them.

    Peter Breggin, David Cohen (2007). “Your Drug May Be Your Problem, Revised Edition: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications”, p.94, Da Capo Press
  • What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.

    Long   People   Host  
    Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics
  • The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much older notion: economic life is only one strand in the rich web of human relationships.

    Self   Law   Giving  
  • No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free will, becomes most obvious. I may not want that which he wants me to want - and in this precisely I am incommunicabilis. I am, and I must be, independent in my actions. All human relationships are posited on this fact.

    Independent   Doe   May  
  • Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.

    "100 Great Australians". Book by Robert Macklin, 1983.
  • I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

    Athlete   Thinking   Two  
  • The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

  • If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.

    Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.46, Open Road Media
  • At the end of the day, what I cherish most are the human relationships. With the unfailing support of my wife and partner I have lived my life to the fullest. It is the friendships I made and the close family ties I nurtured that have provided me with that sense of satisfaction at a life well lived, and have made me what I am.

    Ties   Wife   Support  
    Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.160, Editions Didier Millet
  • The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have contributed substantially to child abuse and to the prevalence of physical violence in Western civilization.... The religious system upon which our culture is based holds that pain, suffering and deprivation are moral and necessary to save one's soul and make one a 'good person.' The crucifixion and scourging of Christ are examples.

  • You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect content." As [Vice President] Joe Biden said when he was a United States senator, you don't need to listen to those calls. If you have who somebody called, when and where, and you learned, for example, somebody called a psychiatrist three times in the last few days and twice after midnight, you know a lot about that person that they may not want people to know about them, especially the government.

    "Stopping the 'Ever-Expanding Surveillance State'". Interview with Aj Vicens, www.motherjones.com. July 31, 2013.
  • At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now?

    Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.104, Penguin
  • I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.5, Princeton University Press
  • All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

    Dark   Relation   Humans  
    Richard Rorty (1991). “Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers”, p.205, Cambridge University Press
  • There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

    Dark   Silence   Doubt  
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