What Is It To Be Human Quotes

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.

Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.

I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.

Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.

All we want is to be treated like human beings, and not to be patronized, or experimented on like guinea pigs.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

We are gods with anuses.

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.

But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

That's it. Love makes us all strong.

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.