What Is It To Be Human Quotes
No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another
We are naïve and moralistic women. We are human beings. Who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.
If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.
My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.
There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.
My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.
All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.
Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.
It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and journalists people to allow them to work.
We are all human beings. As such, we are part of a big family: the human family. The pain of any human being will somehow affect the entire family.
For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.
Like kindness, a smile from the heart not only purifies the human mind but also illumines the human heart.
...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.
The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
I carry two traditional pipes and I sing my songs and pray that us as human beings treat each other with respect. So when it came to trying to portray a connection on screen, that's what you see.
The human body is in constant change the minute we're born. It's in a constant state of decay. We're all like Ford Escorts, just falling apart.
I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.
As human beings we have a tendency to filter out information that does not match up with our preconceived beliefs, including the supremacy of our organization.
People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.
The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.
The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.
Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.
Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.