The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding physical pain as an example, for it is an interest that humans clearly share with other animals - those interests are to be counted equally, with no automatic discount just because one of the beings is not human.
I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.
No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots.
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
Rare are the people who can capture a human being.
As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.
Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge. "
Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.
Branding is a profound manifestation of the human condition
Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.
I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.
Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
