What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
Criminality is a basic part of human nature.
Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.
Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.
I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
Custom is the great guide to human life.
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.
Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.
Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.
