Human Beings Quotes

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

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.

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 think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.

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."

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

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.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

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.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

I just want to play real human beings. You know, I don't care if they're male or female.

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

It's difficult to oppress people who have a sense of identity and unity, he says. Our struggle is about being seen as human beings trying to earn our daily bread.

Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.

Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.

Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

I'm not a bona fide human being.

No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]

Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.

I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can dance to it, then that's all well and fine.

Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body--like radiation, cancer, and all.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.