Human Beings Quotes

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

Human beings are the center of the universe from only one perspective, and that is our own.

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.

Do we need a top-flight quarterback? Do human beings need air to breath?

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

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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)

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 did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this play every night." It's so dark and so bottomless.

I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.

Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.

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.

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.

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

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.

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

Most of who we are is our deepest emotions, and someone who cannot feel those emotions in a positive way is never going to understand much about his fellow human beings.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.