What Is It To Be Human Quotes

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

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.

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.

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.

This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.

There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed; a face deep within the human personality that is impregnable to all assaults.

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

During challenging times and when impassioned to act, human beings can be capable of miracles.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.

If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

Human beings are good, they have shadow, every single one of us has redeeming qualities and every single one of us has qualities that people can hold against us. That’s what makes us human.

Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.

Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.

We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.