What Is It To Be Human Quotes

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

[...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

In the human race today, you came last.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.

The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

The body cannot be the soul.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication.

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.

No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

Some males are intelligent, some are dumb. Some females are intelligent, some are dumb. We're all human beings, no one is superior.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

Nothing in human life is inherently private.

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart...

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.