To Be Human Quotes

The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.

Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

Without peace, there is little hope for human rights

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

There are too many people, and too few human beings.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.

Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.

Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

Seek to have your life in God, not in things, not in people, not in places, not in circumstances, not in arguments, not in human intelligence, but in God.

The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.

Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.