What Is It To Be Human Quotes

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future.

[I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.

The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.

The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.

Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.

Human life commences at the time of conception.

In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

I predict the future of this earthly human race is that having made a mess of Earth they'll move to outer space.

Vows begin when hope dies.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.

Anyone can love a virtue, but a good human being is he or she who loves even vicious people. Everyone Loves the melodious voice of cuckoo, but who cares for Kaw- Kaw of crow.

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.

Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.

Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

A loving heart, a heart full of love, is the precious essence of human life.

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.

White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.

Psychotherapy -- A long, drawn out process consisting of subtle probings of the human mind, whereby women are blamed for all of Freud's shortcomings.

I love the people of Venezuela. I want that country to have freedom. I want it to have human rights and to be banned by a dictator like Nicolas Maduro is, to me, a badge of honor.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

Victims should come first.

You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.

Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life.

Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.

There is no accounting for human beings.