What Is It To Be Human Quotes

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.

Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.

Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.

Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth -- and I know it.

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.

Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.

Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.

Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.

... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights.

There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived in an environment that was very threatening.

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.

... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.

I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

Jesus literally sliced through years of rabbinical law and cultural norms with the extreme love of God that sees the treasure in every human heart.

As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.