What Is It To Be Human Quotes

We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.

Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition.

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.

In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.

The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we're never going to be able to fly as high.

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.

There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. What does that mean, ‘outrages upon human dignity’?

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.

If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.