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.
In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being by a loving God.
My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
