Be Human Quotes

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

He's got a can up there, ' Richard said.

If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth

If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. He felt safe now.

Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.

No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.

...the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.

Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world

You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel

People are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed

I like a look of agony, because I know it's true

the impossibility of being humanall too humanthis breathingin and outout and inthese punksthese cowardsthese championsthese mad dogs of glorymoving this little bit of light towardusimpossibly.

There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress.

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awake that slumbering Progress.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.

The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a human being made in God's image.

Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!

When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not be endured with patient resignation.

The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.

Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

So free we seem so fettered fast we are!

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.