What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.

You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

When the human race learns how to give and regive equally each will be enriched. He who withholds that which he should give to another impoverishes both himself and the other.

Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.

I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.

My point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.

False hope is worse than despair.

Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.

One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

The common people don't believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic problems, including human rights and economic.

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them.' There is only us, one human family, connected in ways we sometimes forget.

To think is to say 'no.'

You know, we're all human beings, and we're not made to be alone.

The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.

For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.

The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.

Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.