What Is It To Be Human Quotes
The Muslim world suffers from internal divisions, antidemocratic practices, and the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms.
Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need to change individually.
One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.
There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.
Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity.
It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject of so much hysteria and repression.
A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.
My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.
I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.
A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.
No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.
The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.
It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.
The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.
In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.
Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.
No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.
A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.
Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.
Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.
Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.
To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.