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To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.
Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.
'House Of Cards' with Kevin Spacey - I love how it portrays humans in power as just like the rest of us - but even worse.
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
You've commited murder just as much as Helene did. You killed a fly with a human head. She killed a human with a fly head.
These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.
I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm a human being.
All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.
Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.
We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
I think the climate is changing, but I don't believe humans are causing that change to the extent that's been in the news.
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.
A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.
It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid
(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
All humans can do more than they think they can do. So I think we can all actually be more superhuman than we think we can.
I have sympathy for any human being that's driven by their limbic part of their brain. We all know that exists in a person.
If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.
Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.
For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.
It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.
[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.
Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.
Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.
She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.
What are you, a baby? Jeez, if you’re going to kill humans, the least you could do is learn to die with some dignity. (Wulf)
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.
The largest question facing the human race is not when will you learn, but when will you act on what you've already learned.
Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.
All the things that make us human make us terrible investors and you have to understand what they are and how to avoid them.
All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.
We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.
Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.
A national park is not a playground. It's a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature's own terms.
Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.
We can't take climate change and put it on the back burner. If we don't address climate change, we won't be around as humans.
Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view.
Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.
Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it.
At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.