Be Human Quotes

It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.

There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.

I just try to be the best I can, but I'm human.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.

The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Nutrition is an exciting, dynamic field - there are more than 10, 000 articles published on human nutrition in medical journals every year.

Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.

So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.

I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.

Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.

Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.

What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

Talent is a by-product of education the quality of a country's human capital depends on it.

In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.

You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.

Care is a state in which something does matter it is the source of human tenderness.

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.