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3882 Beings quotes by 2151 unique authors

A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish… — Elie Wiesel
War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as… — Elise M. Boulding
Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if… — Laozi
The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery. — Pope Benedict XVI
Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place… — Dalai Lama
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together. — Muhammad Yunus
Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent… — Robert E. Lee
A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right… — Thomas Jefferson
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. — Margaret Atwood
Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people… — Abraham Maslow
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information… — Robert Wright
Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted. — Albert Einstein
The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to… — Rajneesh
Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important… — Dalai Lama
Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult… — Dalai Lama
The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a… — Dalai Lama
There is no closer bond than the one that gratefulness celebrates, the bond between giver and thanksgiver. Everything is a gift. Grateful living is a… — David Steindl-Rast
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics. — Albert Schweitzer
Man is certainly not creative, but his creativity should not be concerned with God. His creativity should be concerned with making a better world, a… — Rajneesh
A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according to her nature,… — Rajneesh
We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out… — Dalai Lama
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man… — Malcolm X
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge. — Kenneth E. Boulding

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