The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human. – Jeffrey Kluger
Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It’s the only way that I can do anything, even if I’m quite useless. It’s the only area in being human where I could be a little useful. – Alice Englert
Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind. – Ashwin Sanghi
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that’s the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don’t always get. – Mary Karr
There’s no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human. – Layne Staley
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human. – Terry Eagleton