“There's more to being a human being than having your own way.”

“In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.”

“I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you
realize.”

“No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.”

“That’s what being human means: to be master of your own fate.”

“When a human being relates to an individual nonhuman being as an anonymous object, rather than as a being with its own subjectivity, it is the human, and not the other animal, who relinquishes personhood.”

“Dying more like animals than human beings.”

“To this end we now need many preparatory courageous human beings who cannot very well leap out of nothing — any more than out of the sand and slime of present-day civilization and metropolitanism: human beings who know how to be silent, lonely, resolute, and content and constant in invisible activities; human beings who are bent on seeking in all things for what in them must be overcome; human beings distinguished as much by cheerfulness, patience, unpretentiousness, and contempt for all great vanities as by magnanimity in victory and forbearance regarding the small vanities of the vanquished; human beings whose judgment concerning all victors and the share of chance in every victory and fame is sharp and free; human beings with their own festivals, their own working days, and their own periods of mourning, accustomed to command with assurance but instantly ready to obey when that is called for, equally proud, equally serving their own cause in both cases; more endangered human beings, more fruitful human beings, happier beings!”

“Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.”

“More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.”