Beings Quotes
3882 quotes by 2237 authors
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great…
— Paul Auster
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of…
— Karen Armstrong
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger…
— Karen Armstrong
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
— Mackenzie Astin
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first…
— David Attenborough
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that…
— David Attenborough
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their…
— James A. Baldwin
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to…
— Douglas Adams
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If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
— John Banville
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In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human…
— Bob Barr
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The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.
— Dave Barry
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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
— Jacques Barzun
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
— Charles Baudelaire
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we…
— Saul Bellow
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is,…
— Isaiah Berlin
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