To Be Human Quotes
Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.
The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.
Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.
From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.
As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
We're all always acting. You need to be able to sit in silence and not beat up on yourself. It's hard to say to yourself, 'You are human. Welcome to the human race.'
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.
I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise.
I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.
A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.
It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.
It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.
We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.
My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?
The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.
Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.
I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.
There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it, we're not preparing ourselves for a better future.
If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body--like radiation, cancer, and all.
As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.
It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.
We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.
The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.
When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.
The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?
When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.