What Is It To Be Human Quotes
Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.
Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.
Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.
I don’t care what colour you are, I don’t care what country you’re from; we’re all human beings and fighting’s in our DNA. We get it, and we like it.
Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life.
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.
You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.
Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.
In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of.
God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that’s where life starts, that’s where you start feeling yourself living.
Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.
Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning
A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.
(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.
Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.
As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.