To Be Human Quotes
A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned.
Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.
It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.
The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.
We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.
I fundamentally believe that in the moral balance of the human race, we right ourselves. If we feel like the ship's keel is off, we find a way to steer ourselves through the storm repeatedly.
Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.
Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.
It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.
How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?
Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development
Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.
We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.
The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.
Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years
In 2030 we will be ageless and everyone will have an excellent chance to live forever. 2030 is a dream and a goal.
All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
