It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom.
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.
Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.
Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.
I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.
