Beings Quotes

It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

Let's pretend that we're human beings and that we're actually alive.

Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . .

The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.

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.

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)

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.

I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this play every night." It's so dark and so bottomless.

I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.

Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

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.

All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.

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.

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.

Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.

Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color.

The report [by a UN commission on Darfur] demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.

If it is something that is right for human beings, then I don't care if other people criticize. You cannot please everyone in the world.

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

Most of who we are is our deepest emotions, and someone who cannot feel those emotions in a positive way is never going to understand much about his fellow human beings.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on.

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.

God made the world for the delight of human beings.

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

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.

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.

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

Love is the only thing that counts. Love is what keeps the star and the human beings and the world turning around. Love is the force that binds the whole universe together.

Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.