What Is It To Be Human Quotes

was a clear, pale blue like the eyes of a Siberian husky dog. Human beings just didn't have eyes like that.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing.

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

God . . . endowed [the human race] with capacity to attain to the inaccessible and invisible Supreme Good and behold it face to face . . .

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?

The right to life is the first among human rights.

All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.

The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart

I am inspired by honest people who don't cheat others. To me the famous are those who are kind to fellow human beings and dedicate their life to charity.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

That's what makes you a human being---that willingness to sing another one free.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being - you.

We all face death in the end. But on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart!

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.

Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.

How should we judge what we see? More intimately, let us consider the vulnerability of the human body and soul under these circumstances. It’s all creation. It’s made. It’s not a given.