We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

A Hindu is interested in the welfare of all: not merely humans, but all living beings.

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident

I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

Intelligence is that aspect of human cognition that we haven't managed to emulate yet.

Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.

Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.

Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.

You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

He's no more human than I am, ma petite." At least I'm not dead." That can be remedied.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.

A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you.

Revolutions are all based on the false idea that humans and their nature can be changed.

We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.

The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.

As image-bearers of God, human beings likewise create in ways that reflect our identity.

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.

Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

Nothing is better for the human being than to add the right amount of honey to his food.

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.

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