Human Beings Quotes

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.

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

There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.

Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God.

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise.

We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.

Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.

No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.

In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.

I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

Human beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of consciousness.

Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.

I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.

The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

We must die to become true human beings.

However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

Some males are intelligent, some are dumb. Some females are intelligent, some are dumb. We're all human beings, no one is superior.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.