What Is It To Be Human Quotes
Whenever a nation turns its back on God or beings to live as if He does not exist, it begins to show up in its citizens' disregard for human life.
And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.
The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.
Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.
Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe
The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.
In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.
Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.
Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.
Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.
What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet.
There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.
