I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.
To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.
Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.
The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.
Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.
Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.
I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.
What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.
The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup.
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
The arrogance of the human mind is too fragile, as well as the patience of the human character. It is because of that, they fail to see the power of mere observation and systematic analysis.
I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.
The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.
The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
