Be Human Quotes

Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch.

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

The starting point for the understanding of war is the understanding of human nature.

As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.

God has invited us, as mere human beings, to add to the beauty of his plan and creation

We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

To err is human. To cover it up is weasel.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.

The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.

My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.

The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.

Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.

Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

Marriage is the wastebasket for human emotions.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.

I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.

The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.

The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.

It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

Without a vision human beings are nasty creatures.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank.

One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.

Sometimes the humanrace is given absolutely marvellous gifts, and we take those gifts and squanderthem just because we are human beings. This is all about that.

We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals.