What Is It To Be Human Quotes

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.

The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.

It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.

Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

I hope people see us not just as a football player, but also as human beings, we are not machines!

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

I'm only human, and I bleed when I fall down.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

Human cloning is coming.

The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.