What Is It To Be Human Quotes

A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

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.

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

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.

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.

To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

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.

The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees.

I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure.

We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.

All human beings have a great agency for being part of a team.

[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day.

Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.