Top 100 Quotes About Beings
#1. Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.
Samuel R. Delany
#2. We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings.
Roy Hattersley
#3. Children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
Nan Fairbrother
#4. You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.
Bonnie Bassler
#5. Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
Mark Twain
#6. There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of nature and understand how it works.
Margaret Geller
#7. Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.
Cyprian
#8. Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
Richard Adams
#9. Human beings have always been creative. The guys who were making the pyramids.. and archaeological research has showed us this.. had little figurines made by the workers, to express their devotion to their god.
Bill Viola
#10. I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings.
Bertrand Russell
#12. Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.
Eduardo Galeano
#13. The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.
Jose Saramago
#15. One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.
Steve Blank
#16. Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince.
Cassandra Clare
#17. There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.' Ruskin
Michael Oakeshott
#18. I say human beings have purposeful brains beyond acting like flocks of scared pigeons.
Janny Wurts
#19. Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey ...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#21. Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.
Kara Walker
#22. One of our greatest advantages as human beings is that as long as we are alive, we can change.
Arinna Weisman
#23. The world is so closed off to the inner beings of ourselves, I refuse to ever lower my energies to that.
Nikki Rowe
#24. The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals.
Sharon Gannon
#25. And also I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
Benazir Bhutto
#26. I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.
Bob Brown
#27. The by far greater number of human beings are never aware of what is passing around and within them, and millions fall victims of disease and die prematurely just on this account.
Nikola Tesla
#28. The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ever-greater obstacles in the way of co-operation among human beings.
Rudolf Rocker
#29. Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
#30. Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.
Gautama Buddha
#31. To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.
Shelley Winters
#32. The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.
George Mikes
#33. So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.
Bertrand Russell
#34. When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#35. It's very interesting to blur the line between eating human beings and eating animals, because I do think people should think more about what they put in their bodies, whether it is nutritionally or philosophically.
Bryan Fuller
#36. The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.
Dalai Lama
#37. He saw that, without exception, human beings were driven by self-interest.
Dean Koontz
#38. Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes ... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber ... they're listening to poetry.
Maya Angelou
#39. There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are plenty of the sort of well-intentioned villains who do great harm and don't understand that they are doing great harm.
Kyle Minor
#40. We were the two unlikeliest people to charm information out of someone. Stunted human beings who got awkward every time we tried to express ourselves.
Gillian Flynn
#41. Saving the biosphere depends first and foremost on human beings reaching mutual understanding and unforced agreement as to common ends. And that intersubjective accord occurs only in the noosphere. Anything short of that noospheric accord will continue to destroy the biosphere.
Ken Wilber
#42. We [human beings] are what happens when smart monkeys fuck.
Corey Taylor
#43. Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.
Guy Debord
#44. Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.
John C. Bogle
#45. 'To worship or not to worship' has never been the question for all of God's created beings are inherently worshipers ... it is more consistently a question of who we will worship.
Judson Cornwall
#46. True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past.
Martin Buber
#47. 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.
J.G. Ballard
#48. And his computer's spell-check always forces him to capitalize the word "Internet". Come on; World War Two earned it's capitalization. The Internet just sucks human beings away from reality.
Douglas Coupland
#49. When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
Alan Keyes
#50. All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.
Jack Kirby
#51. We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing - by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.
M.H. Abrams
#52. We human beings love trying to solve things. As long as they're not our things.
Steve Chandler
#53. Human beings are by nature political animals
Aristotle.
#54. In all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.
Margaret Mead
#55. I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Richard Wagner
#56. Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?
Donna J. Haraway
#57. I love working with horses. People say you shouldn't work with animals and children; that's wrong. You must only work with children, because you only work eight hours a day and I love working with animals. Animals have an honesty that human beings reach to find in their lives at the best of times.
Colin Farrell
#58. The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell
Heinz Kohut
#60. There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind. There is something else. It is beyond subject and object. That is nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.
Vinessa Shaw
#62. What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents ... All the ways in which human beings have documented the world in an attempt to order it, in an attempt to consume it or rule it or hang on to it in some sense.
Zoe Leonard
#63. No matter how close two human beings may be, there is always a gulf between them which only love can bridge, and that only from hour to hour.
Hermann Hesse
#64. What am I? A witch, for the love of God! I am a healer, not a destroyer. I have a choice as all human beings have a choice! And
Anne Rice
#65. Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from: either a number of national
Aldous Huxley
#66. I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.
Jane Goodall
#67. I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.
Hugh Masekela
#68. We will discover through our own experience that this precious mind of love is the real wish-granting jewel, because it fulfills the pure wishes of both ourself and all living beings.
Kelsang Gyatso
#69. God's reply to Job makes one simple point: while human beings may have questions about how the Lord rules His world, they have no justification for demanding answers from Him. He is the Creator, but we are the creatures.
Anonymous
#70. If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
Franz Grillparzer
#71. We are spiritual beings whether we want to admit it or not, and inherent in our DNA is a design to return us home - home to our true essence, our greatest self, our limitless self.
Debbie Ford
#72. The point of being created in the image of God is that human beings are destined to display God.That's what images do.And the point of being redeemed by Jesus, and renewed after the image of our Creator, is to recover this destiny.
Sam Crabtree
#73. Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.
Paul Auster
#74. I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel.
Mariella Frostrup
#75. Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources
Henry Mintzberg
#76. Do you want children?' 'What?' He stared at her, nonplussed. 'Children,' she persevered. 'Small, screaming human beings that stink and break everything you own-
Charlotte E. English
#77. There are children in America who are going to be separated from their parents 'cause their parents are going to be deported while the children who were born here can stay. We are forgetting the human beings.
Rush Limbaugh
#78. I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown god.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#79. One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.
Gautama Buddha
#80. Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#81. In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.
Dan Simmons
#82. Sometimes I'm overcome with such an aversion to human beings that I can barely refrain from retching.
Franz Kafka
#83. Truly intelligent beings do not drop bombs on innocent civilians.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#84. We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.
Mehmet Oz
#85. Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differences between us based on disparity in resources, then we should do it.
William T. Vollmann
#86. It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Victor Hugo
#87. I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love animals and then eat them.
William McNamara
#88. We as human beings lower our vibration everytime we react with the emotional attachment of what is only suppose to be a lesson through life.
Nikki Rowe
#89. The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.
Jose Mujica
#90. Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.
Jim Rohn
#91. Outside the drizzling rain had begun again. It pattered around the house, and on the roofs and eaves, like a million, tiny, stealthy feet: softly, as though the night were teeming with a host of minute, dark beings.
Evangeline Walton
#92. If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.
Khaled Abou El Fadl
#93. I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.
Andrew Dominik
#94. If you practice Yoga for small, selfish reasons, you will remain the same, bound by your beliefs about what you can and cannot do. Let go and offer your effort to limitless potential. Dedicate yourself to the happiness of all beings.
Sharon Gannon
#96. Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings.
Gerald Durrell
#97. I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#98. It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers
never make copies, only human beings make copies. Computers are given
commands, not permission. Only people can be given permission.
Brad Templeton
#99. It's always a low when life beings to imitate an old Chevy Chase movie.
David Levithan
#100. People seem to deny the existence of animal emotions so that they can continue to justify inhumane treatment and exploitation and avoid the fact that our actions have a deep emotional impact on our fellow beings.
Stacey O'Brien
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