Be Human Quotes

The character of society coincides with how we treat our most vulnerable members of society.

Every precious human being born should have the right to live, love, and maximize his or her potential without suffering from discrimination.

To every person who has never experienced genuine love and kindness, may you still have the strength to find the love and light that exists within your soul to give, thrive, and shine.

The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.

We can be of many nations, but earth is our land.We can be of many races, but we are just one clan.

We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.

Every child born in the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is this new to him as it was to the first that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind.

It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.

Never think I'm worried about losing sales by speaking out for human rights + gun control. I'd rather be broke than corrupt.

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.

We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.

Diversity of opinions is not what is stopping people from living together in harmony. Stupidity is

I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.

I wish everybody would go back into the closet.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10 000 people. The hardest is with one.

The opinions which we hold of one another our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent save in appearance but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a mental or physical barter to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance ' and I have found his words true.

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.

The fact is that the possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.

Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.

See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others if not more.

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe with one trifling exception is composed of others.

Liberty is always unfinished business.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.

None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties and these liberties were once ours.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.

Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

To be truly free it takes more determination courage introspection and restraint than to be in shackles.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

The hugest changes were the ones that could not be seen – that’s where the real apocalypse lay: in people’s hearts, their souls, their beings.

The business of business is relationships the business of life is human connection.