It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it? — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber...… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter where we're from, we all have to stick together and help each other out as performers and as human… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or… — Bobby Sager Copy Share Image
Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Basically, therefore, we should approach others openly, recognizing each person as another human being just like ourselves. There is not much difference… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I feel akin to [William] Shakespeare in the sense that, as I see it, he lived to dramatize the unfailingly exciting, unfathomably… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression,… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Tackling challenges that are too big for you is what makes you grow as a human being. Why do you think this… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
We must be educated in inner human modesty, so we can recognize that we are not, even for a moment, complete as… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Caesar [from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] was brought up with human beings and because of the drug he… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The Church is likewise conscious of the responsibility which all of us have for our world, for the whole of creation, which… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The first priority will consist in restoring a sense of the acceptance of life as a gift from God. According to both… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I think every human being, born from mother, and at least the next few years, you see, received immense affection from our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Although I knew enough Freud to believe that the sex urge was an important mainspring of life, it still seemed to me… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they… — Moby Copy Share Image
Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is. — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist. — Haley Bennett Copy Share Image
Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“If human beings were to treat one another's personal property the way they treat the natural environment, we would view that behavior… — Patriarch Bartholomew Copy Share Image
Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
Human beings actually have quite a bit of willpower. They don't know too much about it, but they have quite a bit. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings. — Brad Shaw Copy Share Image
I've learned over time that human beings tend to want to do more than they have the courage to do or that… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move… — Nick Brandt Copy Share Image