What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

It's not worthy o human beings to give up.

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.

First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place.

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

The human body is something that I truly love, above all else.

Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

Health is the core of human development

When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

I want my daughters to be respected as human beings; that's the country I'm fighting for.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.

Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time

We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.

Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about...Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings, who don't have all the answers, to think that they do.

God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!

Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.