Be Human Quotes

My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.

I feel like the human body is what it is, and the more you make yourself comfortable with it, the better off you are. Love your body and embrace that.

I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!

There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings!

Human mind can grasp everything in the universe; but it cannot change everything!

Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!

To save the human race and our world, we must correct the evolutionary mistakes by changing the genetics of men.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever you go, you could choke on a fish bone and die. You never know.

Israel is not dangerous on one hand, but on the other hand it is dangerous. Human life is just dangerous, in general.

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.

Sometimes being human sucks.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.

It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.

The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.

Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference.

There is something about the human condition. I don't think dogs are like "If only I was a poodle instead of a golden retriever, I'd be totally happy." Dogs are happy with who they are.

The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

How much Joy can a human mind encompass in one lifetime?

My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

We are all, after all, just human beings, and most of us have a lot in common.

We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

The down side these days is thinking that, “I can do this all on my own”. Yes, you can do this on your own but you’ll be a much happier human being if you do it with other human beings.

All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

Human beings take social stances, and if you’re respectful of all human beings, you have to decide what you’re going to do and why you’re going to do it.

It seems like we're spending billions of dollars on whiz-bang technology and not enough money on human resources, which really is proven to be the most effective way of stopping terrorism.

For me, my faith informs my life. I try and spend a little time on my knees every day. But it all for me begins with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another.

Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.