Be Human Quotes

Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.

There are still people that have been held for human rights that shouldn't be held for just speaking their mind.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

The promises of Fidel Castro's so-called revolution of pluralism and democracy, were and continue to be a false promise and a betrayal of all basic human rights.

We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that's what they were. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.

There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.

This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.

"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul.

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.

Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.

You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity.

Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.

At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

Human rights takes history out of justice.

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.