Human Quotes

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.

Is the human race a universal constructor?

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.

Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

Mr. Speaker, the goal of stem cell research should be to help our fellow human beings. The debate on this issue has, unfortunately, moved into dangerous unethical territory when perfectly moral alternatives exist.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.