What Is It To Be Human Quotes
I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.
I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.
I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.
Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.
No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?
The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.
The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery.
If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.
As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.
Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are as human beings.
Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.
A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects their human rights.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
I’d say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.
To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.
There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another; but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.
Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.