Human Beings Quotes

All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.

Human beings are not black and white.

Human beings are able to reflect on their existencefor now that distinguishes us from other creatures.

When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.

I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center.

I still believe Americas destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.

Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

I'm a human being and every human being has problems.

When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo).

As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.

If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls.

Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

I'm not a ice cream, i'm a human being

Any photographed human being is always a photograph.

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

The way people behave towards each other is a measure of their value as human beings.

Human beings are 70% water and with some the rest is colagen

Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.

All human beings, without exception, are continually creating themselves with the life-energy that is flowing within them

My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.

These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By nature, because they are not decent. They are criminals.

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.

You don't want the white men to be written in a three-dimensional way but the black men, not. I mean, it's just about [how] scripts should always reflect real human beings. So that's what I look for.

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.

The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.

Every human being is a designer

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.