Human beings Quotes · Page 31

Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

— Heinrich Heine

All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).

— Augusto Boal

I'm into humanity. I don't believe in God, but I believe in human beings.

— Eddie Izzard

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

— Anonymous

Don't judge a book by it's cover, read it first!

— Lana Scrabeck

“I want to empasize that rape is about human beings, not statistics.”

— Janet Bode

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!

— Sheri S. Tepper

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.

— Siri Hustvedt

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

— Dean Koontz

My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good…

— Marcus Aurelius

Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through.

— Robin DiAngelo

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love…

— Dean Koontz

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they…

— Peter Kreeft

We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.

— Emanuel Cleaver

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're…

— Pauline Collins

Human beings are partners of the Almighty in bringing life into the world, and we are his partners also in healing.

— Ephraim Mirvis

“Let is Roll” is like - well, it was like me thinking of a human being in its purest form. That form…

— Ladyhawke

People who are racist, they love, they laugh, they are committed to their family and their friends. They're human beings. This is…

— Paterson Joseph

Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It…

— Jean Kilbourne

Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from…

— R. C. Sproul

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human…

— Seth Godin

A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the…

— Huston Smith

That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but…

— Richard Carrier

I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to…

— Wole Soyinka

True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of…

— Adyashanti

Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so…

— Virginia Woolf

Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that'…

— Adyashanti

Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the…

— Stefan Zweig

Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of…

— John Stuart Mill

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

— Henry Reed

Almost any job can make us better human beings if we do it with passion.

— Ricardo Salinas Pliego

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

— Charles Kingsley

A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.

— Jeff Cox

God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.

— Marian Wright Edelman

Tank's a fantastic human being, as far as fighting's concerned.

— Jim Brown

Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.

— Peter Singer

People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.

— Mikhail Gorbachev