What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

If Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign were part of the establishment, that would be time for all of us to just quit having to work so hard and defend it and fight for it.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves.

There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.

Human beings are essentially here for two purposes - to learn about and express love, and to create. We learn about love in all our relationships.

Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one.

I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live.

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

Human life must always be defended from its beginning in the womb and must be recognised as a gift of God that guarantees the future of humanity.

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

I've been living for 17 years, and I've noticed human relations is the most difficult thing to understand.

When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person.

The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

Every human longs for peace and love.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.

[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

The reports on human progress are beginning to come in, and some are a little discouraging.

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the doors were pulled out.

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?