What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.

It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.

In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain functions effectively and unceasingly for more than 60 years.

Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.

There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings.

In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

Wings are not only for birds; they are also for minds. Human potential stops at some point somewhere beyond infinity.

All human suffering concerns each human being.

If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

I am only human, although I regret it.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.

You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

The human soul is an abyss

I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.

AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue.

Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.

I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots.

Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.

Books make up no small part of human happiness.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.

We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.