Be Human Quotes

We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

We do have the precious opportunity of this human life.

‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.

[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body.

And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.

For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

The human brain is the god of technological innovation.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.

One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.

I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings.

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights.

Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

When you create something out of thin air you have to know the human heart.

I want to be part of the human race I want to live, breathe.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity.

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.

One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

And now 'tis man who dares assault the sky ... And as we come to claim our promised place, Aim only to replay the good you gave, And warm with human love the chill of space.

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus. ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all.

Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.