Beings Quotes

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

If we should die trying to live, at least we live like human beings.

The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about...Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings, who don't have all the answers, to think that they do.

I want my daughters to be respected as human beings; that's the country I'm fighting for.

Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.

I think America, unfortunately, collectively thinks of itself as the 'chosen people.' To my knowledge, there are no chosen people, we are all human beings.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.

To embrace humanism is to embrace the concept that caring for our fellow human beings is our highest calling.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.

Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other.

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

It's not worthy o human beings to give up.

The main problem I always have with multiplayer is that human beings are grabby, entitled, selfish, ugly, stupid, evil cockstoppers.

Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.

I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.

He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.