What Is It To Be Human Quotes

You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.

We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Stories are at the very heart of being human; they talk about where we're from, where we are, and where we're going. They're like bread; you need to hear and tell them everyday.

Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.

The police become necessary in human society Only at that junction in human society Where it is split between those who have and those who ain’t got

The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

The human race will begin solving its problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously.

I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.