Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
