What Is It To Be Human Quotes
The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.
I find it deeply upsetting when I see justice not being served. How do we as human beings deal with the unknown? The West Memphis Three trial is a joke on so many different levels.
Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.
Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.
We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are respected, and where our people enjoy all the benefits of democratic institutions.
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.
The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.
I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.
I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.
So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.
Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.
The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.
We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.
I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.
Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.
Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.
There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.
I didn’t accept your sacrifice. I turned it down.” I felt a small Oh form at my mouth, but it never quite made it past my lips. “Are you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?
I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.
It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.
The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.
In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, "Don't stop, keep going."
The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
97 percent of the scientists who wrote articles in peer-reviewed journals believe that human activity is the fundamental reason we are seeing climate change.
The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity.
Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.
The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.
Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.