What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Freedom is a hard habit to break.

It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

One human life is worth more than all the treasures of the earth.

This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itselfAnd leads the will to desperate undertakingsAs oft as any passion under heavenThat does afflict our natures.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

Nothing exists except through human consciousness

the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask...

Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.

Acknowledge that there is a defect in human nature, a built-in waywardness that comes from man’s rebellion against God.

Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.

The deepest problems of the human race are spiritual in nature. They are rooted in man’s refusal to seek God’s way for his life. The problem is the human heart, which God alone can change.

Man’s nature and destiny are revealed in the Scriptures.

Our worldly wisdom has made us calloused and hard. Our natural wisdom, as the Scriptures teach, comes not from God, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish.

In taking our human nature upon Himself, [Jesus] showed us what we might become, what God intended us to be.

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.

Men cannot help that it is their nature to respond to the lewd, the salacious, and the vile. They will have difficulty doing otherwise until they are born again.

Every manifestation of evil is the result of basic sin—sin that has remained unchanged since the moment it first entered the human race.

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.

Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?

A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's direct reflection in the physical realm.

Lovers think quite different thoughtswhile lying side by side.

Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

What a piece of work is man!

The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.

Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,

Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”            -I did nothing for you.”            -You loved me and your love made me--human.

One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie.

When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe and boil.

We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others.

In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.

I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein

You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity.

Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human existence. It’s a mystery!

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.