To Be Human Quotes

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.

I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.

One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart.

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.

Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on.

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

Human nature is disposed to do good.

No relationship is perfect and no human being is perfect.

But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

How can a human being be illegal?

No human being is illegal.

Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.

I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things.

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

One thing it makes me realize is just how similar we all are, around the globe. The details may be different, but every human heart is touched by themes like hope, comfort and mercy.

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.

For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.