Is it not possible that my activity as an objective observer of nature will weaken my strength as a human being?
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.
If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.
Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.
Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--wit...
The main thing about ghosts – most of them have lost their voices. In Asphodel, millions of them wander around aimlessly, trying to remember who they were. You know why they end up like that? Because in life they never took a stand one way or anoth...
Growing up in a culture that constantly reminds one that they are an outsider can be deeply destructive, especially since that standard voice is so very strong, and becomes ingrained in the consciousness so early. Survival requires finding a way to c...
He laughs a little, but there's something in his voice that sounds almost reverent. 'You never know what will last.' He said that earlier, about accidents, about never knowing which one is just a kink in the road and which ones is a fork, about never...
The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'...
He stood just near the club’s steps, his back to me along the foggy English night, and it was not until I’d passed him and began my ascent of the many steps that I’d heard his voice. The voice I knew, in all my years of living upon the Earth, t...
