Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life.
The essence of all human rights is the equality of the entire human race, which the Qur’ān assumed, affirmed, and confirmed. It obliterated all distinctions among men except goodness and virtue (taqwā)
An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race.
It's not just about what I can SEE for our future, or humanity; it's about what I can DO for our future and humanity.
He looked at her defiantly, and she thought: and so one at a time we all become human—human werewolves, human dwarfs, human trolls …the melting pot melts in one direction only, and so we make progress.
War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the m...
I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a ri...
Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first hu...
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself.
Accepted that we all are human resources, but we are humans first and resources later.
In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
In Actual Human Rights are "caring" for Humans left on the planet
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
