What Is It To Be Human Quotes
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.
The heart of our problem is the selfishness in our heart. The human spirit soars with hope when lifted by an encouraging word. The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
We're all human beings and we all have feelings. And we all live in this industrial meat grinder where we don't really understand love anymore.
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.
The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family
The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.
Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.
The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.
When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.
We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.
I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.
So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.
If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.