Louis Farrakhan Quotes

I am human, all too bloody human.

Nothing human is foreign to us

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

The Islamic world is suffering not only because of external oppression but also because of the loss of its own dignity, of its own heritage, of its own practice of Islam, of its weakening of its own ethics, and many things which are internal to Islam not just external.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

Only human, after all.

That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the world; and that hold themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall, in no ways, be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion, or practice, in manners of faith and worship, nor shall they be compelled, at any time, to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place or ministry whatever.

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?

A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.

We must protect the right of citizens to practice their religions freely. As president, I will support federal and state-level legislation like the Religious Freedom Restoration Acts that protect citizens and their churches from government intrusion.

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.

It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that and no government should interfere with them.

All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.