What Is It To Be Human Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

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

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

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.

Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That is, all human beings have potential for infinite success.

Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

To err is human, to forgive supine.

Our lives teach us who we are.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.