Be Human Quotes

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

Anything that is conceivable in the human mind is possible.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).

Work done by human beings for human beings.

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the uniformity of human society is accelerated.

I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism and his efforts to defend human rights.

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.