What Is It To Be Human Quotes
It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.
Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.
I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.
We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.
Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.
The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity.
You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.
I never go out, ever. And I think that's why I've been craving human connection so badly, and in a way, I'm excited to go on tour to be around people all the time.
Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.
Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.
Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.
Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak human soul, that keeps His Word, He willingly resides.
The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.
In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.
One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.
One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.
Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.
If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China will take them far more seriously, too.
Using human rights commitments more effectively, either as part of negotiations in the WTO or as part of the trade policy review process, poses issues of equality in a practical venue.
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.
Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.
Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.
I think human beings probably resonate with audiences more than bunnies, but who knows?
Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.
I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party.
There are a lot of robots who can open clicks. And they can click instead of human beings and this is damaging the confidence and the trust that the client has on programmatic.
The fear of God does not come naturally to human beings; it must be learned through Scripture, worship, and the hard knocks of experience.
The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.
There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!
Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.