I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.
It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.
I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education.
Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.
If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.
Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.
It was fantastic returning to 'Being Human'. When I got cast in the role, at first I just thought it was for one episode, and the fans were really great about it, and it was really nice having that reaction.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
I think my life in general, like that of any human being, has highs and lows, has moments of great light and moments of great darkness.
'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves.
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
I don't believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.
From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.
I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.
