To Be Human Quotes
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.
It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history
But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.
We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.
A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.
Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.
Walk through life eager and open to self-improvemen t and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here - to evolve as human beings.
I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
I am pro-life, I believe human life begins at conception. I also believe that embryonic stem cell research should be encouraged and supported.
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.
Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'
The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.
The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.
