Be Human Quotes
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.
People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.
The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.
The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.
Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.
The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.
As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.
The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'
You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.
Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.
The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.
Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening.
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.
The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and need? Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!
Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.
I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.
The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.
The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons.
The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.
power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.
I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.
I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.
What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?
The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.
I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.
I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.
Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.