What Is It To Be Human Quotes

The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.

Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of our foreheads.

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.

In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...

I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between what we see and what we cannot.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

I believe in order to understand

Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

To embrace humanism is to embrace the concept that caring for our fellow human beings is our highest calling.

No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian)

In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.

The deepest hunger of [a child's] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.

When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

If we should die trying to live, at least we live like human beings.

Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.

I can still improve a lot, but there is definitely a limit to what the human body can do.

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.

The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.

The main problem I always have with multiplayer is that human beings are grabby, entitled, selfish, ugly, stupid, evil cockstoppers.

Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.

Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.