What Is It To Be Human Quotes

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.

Energy experts have announced the development of a new fuel made from human brain tissue. It's called assohol.

If we truly want to have world peace, we have to end human trafficking.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same thing.

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

Mengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings.

What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.

Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

The perfect man sees nothing but God.

Being vulnerable, in my opinion, is not a weakness. It's being human. It is allowing yourself to not have all the answers.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.

the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

I want to be a good human being.

Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.

Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?