Be Human Quotes
The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.
We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.
I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.
Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.
Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.
But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.
It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.
More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.
Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on.
Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart.
The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.
Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.
The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.
Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.
The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.
I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.
I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.
As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.
In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing Life's inequalities, and woe, and care, The burdens laid upon our mortal being Seem heavier than the human heart can bear.
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.