Human Beings Quotes

I've lived through deaths in my family and I've lived through separations in my family so those are the big ones. Those are the ones that press the biggest buttons in human beings' lives.

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.

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

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

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

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.

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

If studies on lab rats are any indication, human beings have a deep-seated fear of a big, scary cat being let into their cage.

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.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

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

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

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

We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals.

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

Sometimes the humanrace is given absolutely marvellous gifts, and we take those gifts and squanderthem just because we are human beings. This is all about that.

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

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

Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.

As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.

I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.

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 want to talk about the nature of human beings or how we're evolving as a race.

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

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed they won't function at all.

Without a vision human beings are nasty creatures.

Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.

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.

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

God made the world for the delight of human beings.

Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.

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

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

One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

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

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.

If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.

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.

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)