Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
General Munro: The Mondoshawans never fully trusted the human race.
I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.
Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.
