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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. -- Anton Chekhov
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. -- Amelia Barr
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
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. -- John Maynard Keynes
Right human relations is the only true peace. -- Alice Bailey
Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love. -- Susan Sontag
I was born modest; not all over, but in spots. -- Mark Twain
There is no hope of joy except in human relations. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down. -- Juliana Hatfield
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other. -- Joe Biden
You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us. -- Christopher McCandless
It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow. -- Gary Zukav
My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more. -- Edward Noyes Westcott
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference. -- Madeleine Albright
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. -- Tahereh Mafi
For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. -- Adrienne Rich
I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values. -- Winthrop Rockefeller
Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise. -- Margaret Mead
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked. -- Anton Chekhov
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate. -- Ayn Rand
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work. -- Dennis Kucinich
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. -- A. S. Byatt
The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. . -- Mother Teresa
In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled. -- Abigail Washburn
I do not remember anything which Confucius has said directly respecting man's "origin, purpose, and destiny." He was more practical than that. He is full of wisdom applied to human relations,--to the private life,--the family,--government, etc. It is remarkable that, according to his own account, the sum and substance of his teaching is, as you know, to do as you would be done by. -- Henry David Thoreau
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence. -- Stephen Covey
All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark -- Richard Rorty
A quality such as self-esteem is a result of practicing good human relations. -- Robert Ringer
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Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings. -- Jean de la Bruyere
There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people. -- Mary Augusta Ward
The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations. -- Anthony Gregory
One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations. -- Jane Addams
I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows. -- Tom Peters
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings. -- George Eliot
I've been living for 17 years, and I've noticed human relations is the most difficult thing to understand... -- Seohyun
Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise. -- J. R. D. Tata
In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that. -- Bertrand Russell
If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large. -- Peter Drucker
The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings. -- Margaret Mead
Of all the issues we are concerned with at present, the most basic issue, in my estimation, is that of human-earth relations. -- Thomas Berry
Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late. -- Katharine Susannah Prichard
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power. -- Adrienne Rich
The transcendent importance of love and goodwill in all human relations is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and society. -- George David Birkhoff
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations. -- Thomas Szasz
But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values. -- Douglas Alexander
Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. -- Max Born
God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. -- George William Russell
Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it. -- Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. -- Bette Davis
I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again. -- Bill Bradley
In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank. -- Stephen Karam
Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations. -- Mary Parker Follett
Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not worth fretting about. -- Gore Vidal
There are a lot of movies with vampires and monsters and super-great effects, but if there's no humor or human relations, I don't think it's ever worth seeing. -- Harald Zwart
Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away. -- May Sarton
Whoever, within his own soul and in human relations, escapes the dominion of force is loved but loved sorrowfully because of the threat of destruction that constantly hangs over him. -- Simone Weil
In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit. -- Sybille Bedford
Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created. -- E. M. Forster
The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
A UNITED civilization is possible only when human relations are balanced in all transactions which have to do with the distribution of the values of life which all men persistently and constantly seek. -- Walter Russell
So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature. -- David Suzuki
"There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe." -- Albert Einstein

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