Human Beings Quotes

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.

I think these people [Al-Qaida, terrorists] need to be forcibly converted to Christianity ... It's the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings.

Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.

I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.

Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know.

Part of our job as human beings is to share our knowledge and share the things we've learned. So we can either save people from making the same mistakes, or give them hope.

Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

The human being who acts is the human being who lives.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.

What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

You know, we're all human beings, and we're not made to be alone.

For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.

I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

My point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.

Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

Im not a perfect Muslim; I think none of us are perfect human beings. I do the five pillars of Islam, you know, I pray five times a day.

Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.

Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.