What Is It To Be Human Quotes

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.

I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.

Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.

When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

Business is a matter of human service.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded.

Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross of Jesus Christ has put more heroism in the souls of men than any other event in human history.

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence in pursuing them.

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.

To be a leader, you have got to lead human beings with affection

I am opposed to globalism, I am opposed to colonialism, I am opposed to any sort of complusion of one nation over another. (...) I also deeply believe in human rights.

The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.