Be Human Quotes

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

I'm a tired runner in the human race.

I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

I wanted to portray a newly democratized, enclosed society. I wanted to show how extraordinarily fluid people are in their embrace of other human beings.

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

Human life is difficult. But as this life is coming to an end, I consider myself lucky to have lived it.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

All human history moves towards one great goal

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.

Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.

Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.

Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

What kind of god is it that some human brain can shatter the illusions that have been built up around such a deity? God's a mystery. I'll never be able to tell you what God is.

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.