Beings Quotes

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

I dont believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.

Footballers are no different from human beings.

Mengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings.

Peace begins in the heart of all human beings.

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.

I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.

Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves.

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal.

All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.

The perfect man sees nothing but God.

Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives

Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

I'm into humanity. I don't believe in God, but I believe in human beings.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

I want to be a good human being.

...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?

Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'

Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.