Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings.
For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.
You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass destruction on this kind of a level, because ultimately if we are to survive as a species, we have to become a human race for whom the thought of war is unthinkable.
I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.
There's nothing more human than two people making love.
We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms of discrimination against people released from prison - discrimination that denies them basic human rights to work, shelter and food.
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.
Sometimes the humanrace is given absolutely marvellous gifts, and we take those gifts and squanderthem just because we are human beings. This is all about that.
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity
We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature
War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable. . . Water has been a source over so many years of erosion of confidence, of tension, of human rights abuses, really, of so many in areas whose traditional water supplies have been controlled and depleted by occupational authorities. That must stop if we're going to be able to develop a climate for peace.
It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.
Rare are the people who can capture a human being.
I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.
Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.