Beings Quotes

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that's what they were. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.

So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.

I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.

Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.

Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

I find it deeply upsetting when I see justice not being served. How do we as human beings deal with the unknown? The West Memphis Three trial is a joke on so many different levels.

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.

maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.

The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.

Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

Human beings disappear; their histories remain.

The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

My favorite procrastination is to make the choice to have valuable times with human beings that I care about instead of holing myself up alone to get my work done.

For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or religion.

as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!

If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.

The things that motivate human beings, they don't change, emotionally.

All of us are beautiful people, but we walk around just being people. I wanted real human beings.

Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.

As human beings in general ... I don't think we've grown that much. Technology wise, we are getting too intelligent for our own good.

The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.