To Be Human Quotes

I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation, only human beings.

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.

Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.

Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.

Looking out at this quarter of a million people,... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together to make a positive social change.

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.

Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.

By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do?

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.

When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.

All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.

We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind.

I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.

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.

Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

Every human being in the human form has limitations.

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up

I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

I don't do too much looking back and regretting things - not that I haven't made tons of mistakes. But I do think people are in our lives so we can learn lessons and evolve as better human beings.

I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.