Be Human Quotes

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work with [on 'The Elephant Man']. It was a very thrilling time, actually.

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.

I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.

If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to work together. That may be more than we can ever hope to achieve, just because of human nature.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

I can't legislate to change human nature.

I would never want to kill a human being.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

Improve human intelligence to get Osama bin Laden.

Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.

When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

Great vision communication usually means heartfelt messages are coming from real human beings.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.

The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I think it's very important that we don't become complacent or stagnant.

After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

The greatest gift that we have as human beings is our ability to empathize. That's why I think personal stories matter so much. That's someone's mom. That's someone's daughter. That's someone's son.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.