To Be Human Quotes

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.

The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed they won't function at all.

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

I do not support Hamas! I support human dignity and respect! I support sharing! I support Peace! #ceasefire

The origin and the causes of disease are far too recondite for the human mind to unravel them.

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

The human spirit is indomitable, unless your talking specifically about the people I know.

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind. It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

The beauty of coaching is that you are working with human beings. I feel very comfortable with my staff that we can make a difference, that we can make a difference on the ice.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.

We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.