Be Human Quotes

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.

Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination.

Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind.

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with greater appreciation for the miracle of life.

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

There's bad people since the beginning of time. Literally one of the first four human beings was someone who killed somebody. So that's never going to change, unfortunately.

...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.

It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life.

I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Human life must be some form of mistake.

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

Beware! I'm acting under the influence of human nature.

I too am a member of the human race, (but admittedly not a very active member).

I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.

The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.

You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.

Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

Climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, and it is already causing devastating problems in America and around the world.

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.