Being human Quotes · Page 4

As a little boy, I never felt comfortable with being human.

— Genesis P-Orridge

Merely being human is morally significant.

— Alice Crary

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

— George Orwell

“Be not an insect of indifference, be the godzilla of zeal and deeds.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Play the role as a human being... human beings are three-dimensional.

— Michael Pena

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

— Eric Jerome Dickey

Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.

— Paulo Coelho

Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.

— James Madison

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

— Rose McGowan

“Do something better and different that people know you by your work not by your name.”

— Jarman Sandhu

I'm not a biohacker. I'm not an optimization person. I'm an explorer, about the future of being human.

— Bryan Johnson

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

— Bertolt Brecht

I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.

— John Trudell

Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.

— John Daido Loori

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

— Tom Stoppard

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate.…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that…

— Vidal Sassoon

“To me, real love, the move from power to love, involves immense suffering. Any creative work comes from that level, where we…

— Marion Woodman

I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that.…

— David Poole

“These are immigrant times And the lines are long, The signs for jobs few, The songs sadder, the air meaner. Everyone is…

— Alberto Ríos

Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

There's a lot of kids who look up to me, and that's humbling. Because being human, I don't want to fail them.…

— Si Robertson

I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or…

— Edith Sitwell

Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her…

— Carson McCullers

Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make…

— Carl Safina

Every community has crime and violence; it's a part of being human. This idea that black communities are more violent than others…

— Patrisse Cullors

The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all…

— Richard Lewontin

We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You…

— Sandra Steingraber

In this conversation we discover another possibility: living in a way, now, moment to moment, that makes a difference to life. We…

— Werner Erhard

“You are as you are until you're not. You change when you want to change. You put your ideas into action in…

— Jamie Varon

When I've written episodes of 'Doctor Who', when it comes to the monster chasing somebody, it's the Doctor and the companion, running…

— Donald Sumpter

Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.

— Trent Reznor

Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other.

— Tommy Chong

Snowflakery is simply being human, which makes it a pretty flakey insult.

— Faith Salie

“We die every day," Kit said. "It's called being human.”

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

— James Earl Jones

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Let's all help each other be a little bit better at being human beings.

— Chelsea Handler

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

— Henri Nouwen