Human Beings Quotes

...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.

Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

I carry two traditional pipes and I sing my songs and pray that us as human beings treat each other with respect. So when it came to trying to portray a connection on screen, that's what you see.

I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

As human beings we have a tendency to filter out information that does not match up with our preconceived beliefs, including the supremacy of our organization.

Any human being has private thoughts.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

Alaska is so unblemished. It really gives you a good look back at what the earth looks like without a lot human beings crawling all over it.

Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

I feel that joy is the basic emotion of life and of human beings. It's what supports everything. We are here to be happy. We are to enjoy "alegria."

We were breaking away from anything that linked us to this world, but by doing that those ideas remained even stronger. Fables represent the basis for what I wanted to say about human beings.

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.

All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that's what they were. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.

So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.

"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.

Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.

Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

I find it deeply upsetting when I see justice not being served. How do we as human beings deal with the unknown? The West Memphis Three trial is a joke on so many different levels.

maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.

The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.

Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

Human beings disappear; their histories remain.

The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident