Human Beings Quotes

The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.

I think all human beings are at least a little bit Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and many of us are downright quadrophenic.

I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom to God.

I've got three brothers; I think all of them are good human beings.

The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.

it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.

Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.

Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.

These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.

[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so

The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.

I wanted to portray a newly democratized, enclosed society. I wanted to show how extraordinarily fluid people are in their embrace of other human beings.

Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future.

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.

Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.

White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

There is no accounting for human beings.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.

The leadership spirit possess a natural love for all human beings.

What it gives any human being a right to - to pick and choose which embryo - which fetus is more valuable than another. That's is not up to human beings.

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.