Human Beings Quotes
No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation, only human beings.
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.
I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.
Looking out at this quarter of a million people,... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together to make a positive social change.
Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.
I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up
I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror to fellow human beings.
Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money.
I take issue with many people's description of people being illegal Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned.
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.
Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.
The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about."
There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.
I adore dogs to the extent I think they are much more important than human beings. I like your dog much more than I like you.
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.
Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
I don't do too much looking back and regretting things - not that I haven't made tons of mistakes. But I do think people are in our lives so we can learn lessons and evolve as better human beings.
You can develop the right attitude toward others if you have kindness, love and respect for them, and a clear realization of the oneness of all human beings.
Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.
If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters into the mind. Zen is writing a new program to run in the mind.
There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.
You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.
Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.
Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.
Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.
Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order.
