Beings Quotes

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

The perfect human being is uninteresting.

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can dance to it, then that's all well and fine.

Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.

Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]

Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.

My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe.

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

Human beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of consciousness.

No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief

Look at yourself as someone who is reaching for healing, and at the complexity of what needs to be healed. Do not think that you exist alone without other human beings of equal complexity.

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

The persistent appetite for human beings for community is what we should all be dedicated to.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings

I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.