The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.
Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.
Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.
Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
'Humankind' is an attempt to think the human species without Nature and without humanity.
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
There is no denying that the interventionist wars in Iraq and Libya that were propagated as necessary to relieve human suffering actually increased human suffering in those countries - many times over.
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
