What Is It To Be Human Quotes
The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.
We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.
A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.
Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.
It is God who gives life. Let us respect and love human life, especially vulnerable life in a mother's womb.
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.
I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.
As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.
Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die out?
If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.
The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change those principles.
Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.
I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.
Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.
One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
Most of who we are is our deepest emotions, and someone who cannot feel those emotions in a positive way is never going to understand much about his fellow human beings.
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.
If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.
Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?