What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need.

I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal.

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

The Witch can gaze clearly into the dark hidden corners of the human psyche just as the full moon can light up the darkness of night.

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.

The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.

At the level of the mind, you are part of the human mind; at the level of the brain you are part of the global brain. This is a perfect example of becoming the change that you want to see.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter. Far more important is that they be a good human being.

One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

Peace begins in the heart of all human beings.

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.

Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

I dont believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.

Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake.

I'm into humanity. I don't believe in God, but I believe in human beings.

Footballers are no different from human beings.

The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives

Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.