What Is It To Be Human Quotes
Who we were shapes us into who we are, and who we are shapes us into who we’ll become.
... the love of money is the root of all evils." - John de Alençon, Pg, 64
Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.
Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.
I'm Noah, and you are the ship coasting along the banks and as long as you are my valentine I will sail between your eyes..
Understand: I don't ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater...in all things, in all circumstances.
The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.
For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness.
No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.
Human beings wear clothing and walk upright, but when you take that away, we're nothing but monkeys.
Never try to change the nature of anyone in your life, you will loose respect and eventually the person.
I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I’m just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I can’t change that.
You know what kind of a man Lonny Tooker is? The kind of a man that sets broken bird's wings.""Hitler loved dogs and babies, " Dave said.
We see the world not as it is, but as we are.~Dag Redwing Hickory Bluefield
When you're young you think you know it all, when you're old you wish you could remember it all.
I wasn't sure which I appreciated less—the insincere concern or the genuine indifference.
- You get more misanthropic every day.- I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.
What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.
Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else?
Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the place people want to escape to.
Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.
Reason has always been obliterated by the sensation of profound solitude, perhaps that is why we replace the aching of isolation with the anguish of abuse.
We're all so afraid of what everyone around us thinks that we risk ourselves to desperation. It's utterly stupid. It's utterly frightening. But it's utterly human.
He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man
Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.
He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.
The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.
Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone.
he knew that men were too complex to be defined by the worst moment in their lives
Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?
Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.
...suddenly I got shivers down my spine thinking about how many different people one and the same person can be.
People are attracted more towards bad things because being good has been turned into a boring duty. No adrenaline & dopamine rush, no rewards!
There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like my father, ruthlessly obedient to their idea of fair play.
We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.
Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all.
I have been cheated out of being treated like a human being. In my reflection I saw an empty vessel. They had cheated me and I was desperate to make the sharp pain in my head stop.
