Quotes About Human

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

O freedom, first delight of human kind!

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

Michael might have become a vampire, but watching him stand outside in the night air, breathing in his freedom Claire thought that was as human as it could get.

What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

Religious freedom is a fundamental human right.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.

Anxiety is the price tag on human freedom

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.