To Be Human Quotes
I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.
By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.
Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !
English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.
It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.
... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.
Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".
The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish.
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.
The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.
There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.
This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.
It is very deplorable that North Korea still does not uphold human rights, which are universal values.
Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them
The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.
Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.
Seduction is a matter of feelings and people opening themselves. I don't think it's something tricky - it's being human. And everybody is seduced by something different.
We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
Fashion has a reason to be, because in fashion you can find new kinds of expression about human beings. It's my way to communicate.
People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.
It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.
I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.
I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.
Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.
People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.
The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing Life's inequalities, and woe, and care, The burdens laid upon our mortal being Seem heavier than the human heart can bear.
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.