What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.

This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

When ypu awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience.

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

No human being is the same; we are like snowflakes, none of us are the same but we are all COOL

What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it.

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.

The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.

I'm a rapper but I'm a human being.

Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.

Part of being human is that we can’t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again we’ll do it the right way.

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99