Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

People are still people no matter how you cut it.

Hey, I'm a human being also.

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

He who is infatuated with 'Man' leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

I'm a human being before anything else.

Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not.

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.'

I describe myself as a human being.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that's like - everyone is a person.

There is always a human being behind the titles and the status.

I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn't see anybody as anything other than that.

First and foremost, I'm human. I'm a person.

I am not an image. I am a human being.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

Man is more than constitutions.

Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.