Beings Quotes
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.
Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.
The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.
The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.
For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.
The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.
There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.
People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.
Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.
The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.
Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.
As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.
There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.
Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.
For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.
Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed they won't function at all.
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.
Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.
Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine.
Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)
They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !
All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.
I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings
The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.
We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.
We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.
The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.
You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.
I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.
Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.
Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)
Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.
Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.