Human Beings Quotes

It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings

Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at the empty perspectives that I myself had seen.

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

Human beings are weak.

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.

Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.

"Angelophany" is the visible or otherwise tangible manifestation of angels to human beings. Abraham Lincoln frequently mentioned that he was visited by angels at the White House.

We are human beings, not ants.

The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals.

If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings.

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.

Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view.

People are afraid of change. We all are. Human beings are afraid of change, but change can be good.

Wrinkles happen to human beings.

It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject clothes, and the implied need to hide yourself.

Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings.

I personally believe that the solar flares are more responsible for climatic cycles than anything that human beings do

I know that sounds cliché, but mostly from my own experiences and things I see around me. We're all human beings, and a lot of the things I write about are pretty universal things.

Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?

We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.

Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you."

A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof.

It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work with [on 'The Elephant Man']. It was a very thrilling time, actually.

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

I would never want to kill a human being.

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

Great vision communication usually means heartfelt messages are coming from real human beings.

...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?