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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected. -- Hans Kung
The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling. -- Christopher Alexander
What kind of human person has a favorite eraser? -- William Golding
The glory of God is the human person fully alive. -- Irenaeus of Lyons
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. -- Maria Montessori
If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate. -- Greg Koukl
It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. -- Gordon Getty
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality. -- Alexis Carrel
The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good. -- Pope Benedict XVI
paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality. -- Naguib Mahfouz
The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person. -- Paulo Freire
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death. -- Taylor Caldwell
It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way? -- John Money
The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person. -- E. F. Schumacher
I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals. -- Sara Gruen
All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity. -- Pope Francis
Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person. -- Pope John Paul II
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were! -- Pope John Paul II
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior. -- Maxwell Maltz
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons. -- Helen Prejean
Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude. -- Pope John Paul II
The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one. -- Bayard Rustin
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training. -- Carroll Quigley
The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person. -- John Courtney Murray
Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God. -- Pope John Paul II
God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it. -- John Owen
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real. -- Frank Stella
One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality. -- Justin Cronin
The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society. -- Maria Julia Hernandez
Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings. -- Salvatore J. Cordileone
The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death. -- Stanislav Grof
The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human person, male and female, is created in the image of God. -- David Novak
John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster. -- Graham Chapman
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program. -- Poul Anderson
The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and the indivisible dignity of each human person made in the image of God. -- Helen Prejean
You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand. -- Francis Schaeffer
Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking. -- Jane Roberts
Each of us has a mission . . . each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the dignity of each human person. -- Pope Benedict XVI
My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing -- Abraham Maslow
I look for three things. Number One is does the film promote the beauty and dignity of the human person? Number Two is does this film promote the transcendent moral order? And three, does it promote natural affection? -- Jason Jones
That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weak and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn. -- Pope John Paul II
The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Every human life is sacred, because every human person is sacred. -- Pope John Paul II
Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to defend the dignity of every human person with courageous determination. Christ is with you: be not afraid! -- Pope John Paul II
We emphasize the transcendent worth of the human person. We insist that the human person must never be treated as an object; he must always be considered the subject. That is the basis for our teaching, the absolute standard. -- Pope John Paul II
The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality. -- Alexander Smith
Therefore the dignity of the human person normally demands the right to the use of earthly goods as the natural foundation for a livelihood; and to that right corresponds the fundamental obligation to grant private property, as far as possible, to all. -- Pope Pius XI
Only after Self-Realisation and only then, is there a direct experience of the Spirit. It then manifests its powers in the human personality, and it's light enlightens the consciousness into a new awareness. The Divine intelligence of the Spirit radiates on all sides. -- Nirmala Srivastava
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. -- Havelock Ellis
Atheists often denounce Christianity as harsh and negative. But in reality it offers a much more positive view of the human person than any competing religion or worldview. It is so appealing that adherents of other worldviews keep free-loading the parts they like best. -- Nancy Pearcey
What does our generation owe to generations yet unborn? ...there is an order in the universe which must be respected, and... the human person, endowed with the capability of choosing freely, has a grave responsibility to preserve this order for the well-being of future generations. -- Pope John Paul II
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. -- Alfred Loisy
What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social structures. With breadth of intellect and balance of wisdom, Smith resets the frame of reflection for the most important discussions of the twenty-first century. -- William B. Hurlbut
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal. -- Elizabeth Aston
The gospel is not mere forgiveness or grace, empty of content, but always refers to Jesus. So the gospel is good news about a human person who is God in our history, our world and who came to accomplish something in his life death and resurrection. -- Mockingbird
We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person... -- Richard John Neuhaus
While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain. -- Robert Winston
Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person. -- Dean Smith
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error. -- Walter Lippmann
The true significance, then, of absolute music is that it expresses human personality at its finest moments, adequately, beautifully and spiritually, by the medium of sound. And therefore our finest music is one of the supreme possessions of the world ; for there is nothing greater than great personality. -- J. Alfred Johnstone
Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other"¦. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another. -- Martin Buber
The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours. -- Albert Camus
Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm that euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person. -- Pope John Paul II
Too often, attention is diverted from the needs of populations, insufficient emphasis is placed on work in the fields, and the goods of the earth are not given adequate protection. As a result, economic imbalance is produced, and the inalienable rights and dignity of every human person are ignored. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well. -- Lev Vygotsky
Laws and conditions that tend to debase human personality - a God-given force - be they brought by the State or individuals, must be relentlessly opposed in the spirit of defiance shown by St. Peter when he said to the rulers of his day: 'Shall we obey God or man?' -- Albert Lutuli
The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one might call the ritual sense of the word. It has something of that transcendental majesty which the churches of all times have given to their Gods. -- Emile Durkheim
Deeply rooted in the universalist Western tradition of the Stoics and the the early medieval Christians, Tolkien created a myth to explore the nature of the human person against the avaricious dreams of the capitalists and the diabolical schemes of the national and international socialists, all of whom would replace God with man. -- Bradley J. Birzer
We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity of me, myself and I, seems to dominate. We know that's contrary to the very nature of the human person. The very nature of the human person needs God and needs other people. -- Timothy M. Dolan
Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human person craves political life, communal life, not only with regard to the family community, but with regard to the civil community. -- Jacques Maritain
The [Kwanzaa] holiday, then will of necessity, be engaged as an ancient and living cultural tradition which reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people's culture. -- Maulana Karenga
Even the most despicable person is still a human being. -- Stellan Skarsgard
I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am. -- T-Pain
Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human. -- Sharad Pawar
Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being. -- William Levy
Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature. -- Martin Chemnitz
There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you. -- Helen Reddy
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being. -- Michael J. Fox
Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being. -- J. August Richards
I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person. -- David Oyelowo
A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for. -- Martin Buber
Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human. -- Cesar Millan
George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor! -- Shailene Woodley
The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals. -- Keith Henson
When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person. -- Shirin Ebadi
I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair. -- David Novak
Die,human! Die, silly polluting nasty person! -- Rick Riordan
The most thankful person is the most fully human. -- Thomas Goodwin
To be human is to catch the falling person. -- John Green
The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another. -- Buzz Aldrin
The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation. -- Milton H. Erickson
Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association -- Orson Scott Card
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human. -- William Sloane Coffin
Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick~? -- Markus Zusak
The more one forgets one's own self, the more human the person becomes. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? -- Markus Zusak
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves. -- Elbert Hubbard
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? -- Clarence Darrow
When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human. -- Cesar Chavez
Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. -- Dalai Lama
"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master. -- Anthony de Mello
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In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings. -- Victoria Legrand
The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features. -- Leon Uris
Conflicts are not a sign you've married the wrong person. They simply affirm you are human. -- Gary Chapman
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons. -- Desmond Tutu
I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women. -- Danielle Steel
It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend. -- Daniel Pearce
It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human. -- Kate Jacobs
I really felt the growth of myself as a human being, as a person [becoming a mother]. -- Jennifer Lopez
You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person. -- Vivian Gornick
My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority. -- Chris Hayes
If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am. -- Charles Yu
The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ. -- Pope Benedict XVI

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