Human Issues Quotes

It's just like I'm an athlete, I'm a human being. I have personal issues going on.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

These are human issues. These are human stories. I think that's why 'Fences' has been able to resonate and been able to hit so many people over the years because it is just that. You can't run away from the racial specifics of it, but that's just a part of it.

Our lyrics deal with real issues that face all humans: choices in life, depression, self-esteem. And the fans know that we are there for them, and they are there for us.

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

Even actors are human beings, so we have issues to deal with - physical, emotional, and mental.

Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life.

I am trained as a psychologist, and I think of all human issues in terms of psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary theory.

Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.

It's my opinion that if you're trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can't help but touch on important issues. Those issues are what make us human.

Sometimes, people have issues, and you just wish sometimes that it could be good.

I can't stop terrorism; I can't cure cancer. But I can put some stories out there in their own quiet way that talk about tolerance.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.

I've always found people to be by far the biggest problem-causers in life.

We don't see a choice between securing growth and investment and raising human rights issues.

'Star Trek' works for me because it deals with the petty issues of humankind.

O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

I look for a layered character who has problems and issues - which, by the way, we all do have.

You know, everybody is dealing with issues.

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.

I think the songs I was writing after Aeroplane were full of a lot of undealt-with pain that was just a little too big... the issues seemed too large for me to confront intuitively through songwriting. I kept pushing it and pushing it. There are so many issues about being human and why people inflict pain on each other. There were seeds of all these things I hadn't dealt with. With just the personal issues, I felt I was in over my head, but then to write about it... To write you have to have at least a little bit of confidence you know what you're talking about.

Dogs have fleas and we have anthropologists.