What Is It To Be Human Quotes
Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.
Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.
Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.
Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.
These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.
For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.
Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.
The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him.
Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.
With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.
I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.
It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.
The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion.
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.
A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one doesn't find in other societies.
Women should have the same rights and respect and paychecks and everything, you know, they're human beings.
Tt just seems to be human nature to seem to want to posit in another human being, qualities that you must know, in part of your mind, that human being couldn't possess because you don't possess.
Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.
Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.
The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation.
Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?
When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.
Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.
Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.
If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life.
In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.
The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.
To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
My mother is one of those very unusual, superb human beings-she's innately strong and incredibly smart. She created an environment for me to explore who I was.
The important thing is to go back to wholeness. It's time for human beings to come into a sustainable world.