What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings.

even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.

True love can alter human lives and change human nature.

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body.

Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

I think these people [Al-Qaida, terrorists] need to be forcibly converted to Christianity ... It's the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.

Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are.

Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

In the areas which have been disturbed people are living cordially with the Security Forces. In areas like Gulu people are living peacefully. There is scrupulous respect of human rights.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.

Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.

The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.