Be Human Quotes

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.

We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.

At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other.

You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.

I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.

The leadership spirit possess a natural love for all human beings.

What it gives any human being a right to - to pick and choose which embryo - which fetus is more valuable than another. That's is not up to human beings.

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.

The greatest mystery of all is the human heart.

The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.

I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature.

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

Human nature is fond of novelty.

A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.

The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.

There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.

A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life and discover its meaning, even if the goal is never fully realized.

Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation.

There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.

We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.

For the people of Israel and America are historic partners in the global quest for human dignity and freedom. We will always remain at each other's side.

Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money.

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.

This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .

Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.

I had the human rights life, and I had the family business life.

Human society needs essntially fellow-feeling and unity. When these two are present, humanness will flourish.