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Human Quotes by Desmond Tutu
- We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and…
- There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned…
- I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed…
- Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth
- Who can stop climate change? We can. You and you and you, and me. And it is not just that we can stop it, we…
- You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly…
- The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.
- To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to…
- We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.
- Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily…
- We need other human beings in order to be human.
- We can only be human together.
- The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
- Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.
- Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know…
- Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable,…
- If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can…
- I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.
- One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist…
- The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
- My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
- Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
- Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they…
- As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
- And every human being is precious.
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong