To Be Human Quotes

To Be Human Quote of the day

Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.

I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

I believe there is only one race - the human race.

Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

There is only one race, the human race.

Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to reflect themselves. The control of images is a major factor in world power.

I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Do not expect human beings to reward you, don't even think about it, just LOVE, because you know at the end of the day it will be God who will give you the reward.

No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.

Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.

The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.

I believe the human spirit is indomitable.

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves.

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.