To Be Human Quotes

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.

There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.

When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears.

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.

Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.

No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.

Love is the only thing that counts. Love is what keeps the star and the human beings and the world turning around. Love is the force that binds the whole universe together.

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.

If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.

At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now?

Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.

All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

The largest question facing the human race is not when will you learn, but when will you act on what you've already learned.

Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

Human beings are curious by nature.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn

How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

I've always like sort of, as an actor, I'm drawn to exploring how we are as human beings in given situations and how we act and how we react and what makes us tick.