Having a roof over your head with enough food to eat is a fundamental need of all humans if they are to achieve happiness.
Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.
Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.
Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.
Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.
There comes a point where you become tired of the loneliness and need a human touch, a caress to make you realize you still exist as a person.
Live your life significantly. Contribute to a meaningful and useful positive changes and growth towards humanity.
Are writers the torchbearers of humanity? It’s a romantic idea, but it’s complete rubbish. We writers are the crocodiles in the river.
It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own. p 284
... if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.
You want to know what's wrong with the world?" Dad paused. "It's this alienation that permeates every aspect of humanity.
I guess," says Deagle, finally, "I'll just have a pack of Marlboro Lights. That's what I used to smoke when I was human.
Revenge is the sweetest of all human experiences, its sweetness stays forver. Page 41. THE SCALPEL – GAME BENEATH (
The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave, . { }
What do you do with humans? You eat from them just a little, if they are delicious. You delight in their flesh sometimes, if they are not tedious.
It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect.
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
But never in all her human days had her blood bubbled with such a golden exultation and such blissful freedom as now when she ran, a werewolf, across the marsh.
Truth and effort may increase human worth But they are not enough to make us whole; Only love can complete us.
