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.
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.
I'm a fallible human being - but if I were to react to that knowledge with fear/defensiveness then how would I move forward?
I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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.
We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.
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.
My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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.
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.
I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
