Top 1200 Human Will Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

That idea of being so sure of what has happened, and what will happen, is the most idiotic human thing that anyone can do.

Human rights are standards of behavior that are inherent in every human being. They are the core principles underpinning human interaction in society. These include liberty, due process or justice, and freedom of religious beliefs. I find little sympathy with efforts to try to equate Internet access with these higher, fundamental concepts.

The most important question any human being will ever face: 'Who do you say that Jesus is?'

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

No man-made law will ever eliminate cruelty and evil from every human heart.

The real tragedy is that we're all human beings, and human beings have a sense of dignity. Any domination by one human over another leads to a loss of some part of his dignity. Is one's dignity that big it can be crumbled away like that?

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

10 Rules for Being Human: Rule #1 - You will receive a body. Rule #2 - You will be presented with lessons. Rule #3 - There are no mistakes, only lessons. Rule #4 - The lesson is repeated until learned. Rule #5 - Learning does not end. Rule #6 - "There" is no better than "here". Rule #7 - Others are only mirrors of you. Rule #8 - What you make of your life is up to you. Rule #9 - Your answers lie inside of you. Rule #10 - You will forget all this at birth.

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

The 'coming of the Self' is immanent; and the process of collective 'individuation' is living itself out in human history. One way or another, the world is going to be made a single whole entity. But it will be unified either in mutual mass destruction or by means of mutual human consciousness. If a sufficient number of individuals can have the experience of the coming of the Self as an individual, inner experience, we may just possibly be spared the worst features of its external manifestation.

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

Our most important legacy will be the contributions we make to the lives of other human beings.

To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.

You want to belong, you want to be here. In interactions with others you're constantly waiting to see that they recognize that you're a human being. That they can feel your heartbeat and you can feel theirs. And that together you will live - you will live together.

I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever.

The human race will begin solving its problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously.

We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

I think that the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight - it's not a 'gay wedding,' it's just a 'wedding'... It's not a 'gay marriage,' it's just 'a marriage.' It's not a 'black man' or 'white woman,' it's just 'a man' and 'a woman,' or 'a human' and 'a human.' I'd just like to get to that.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created.

The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities.

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

As long as capital-both human and money-can move toward opportunity, trade will not balance.

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all.

By about a week before the big day, you will have received less than half of your invitation response cards. Panic sets in when it occurs to you that everyone invited will actually show up. You couldn't have made it easier for your guests. You have included a card that had boxes for 'will attend' or 'will not attend.' You included a pre-addressed, stamped envelope. How inconvenient could it be for them simply to check it off and drop it in in a mailbox? Very inconvenient. You, evil bride-to-be, are confronting two basic human fears. A terror of correspondence and the dread of decision-making.

You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.

...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.

The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left.

Our general attitude toward life and our attitude toward sexuality cannot be separated. We cannot choose where we will build strongly and where we will disregard, for all the threads interweave to make the human pattern.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.

Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail

To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.

The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

Show yourself more human than critical, and then your Pleasure will increase.