Be Human Quotes

I know the human spirit. I haven't found a wall that can be built that a determined human being can't get over, under or around.

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.

I really do enjoy getting out to meet my readers. Writing is such a solitary business, it's gratifying to thank folks in person and really connect as human beings and not just words on a screen.

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole

Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds.

I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.

I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man.

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...

Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.

There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense.

Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.

He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.

In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.

As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.

I was very excited to meet Amanda Seyfried. She is one of the most humbling human beings you will ever meet. She deserves success.

I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process and hence you have gas.

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

I'm just attracted to human behavior and how people sometimes never would interact with one another or be in each other's sphere of awareness.

There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.

In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances.

There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings.

A calm mind helps our human intelligence to assess the situation realistically.

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

I am just one human being.

Every man has the basis of good. Not only human beings, you can find it among animals and insects, for instance, when we treat a dog or horse lovingly.

In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

I always have the feeling that I'm just another human being.