Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.
We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale human cooperation, you will always find that it is based on some fiction like the nation, like money, like human rights.
Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.
When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
Law is born from despair of human nature.
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
The responses of the baby monkey are very similar to those of a human baby.
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.
Sex is… perfectly natural. It’s something that’s pleasurable. It’s enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don’t we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being’s functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don’t see how I can ever trust any human being again.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation – a force for construction and destruction.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can’t get it back.
War remains the decisive human failure.
There is no ‘us’ and ‘them’; it’s an illusion. We are all human beings, and we all have a responsibility to support one another and to discover ways of wresting the power from the very, very few people who control all the cash and all the property.
Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying… Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth’s climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now.
