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3882 Beings quotes by 2151 unique authors

When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities… — Katha Pollitt
The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields… — Iwan Bloch
You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate.… — Matt Ridley
Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason… — Huston Smith
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon… — Nicholas Murray Butler
It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this ambition, this aspiration… — B. C. Forbes
The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past… — Jeremy Rifkin
When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores. — William C. Roberts
A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh,… — H.G. Wells
Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to… — William Braxton Irvine
There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat. — Karl Lagerfeld
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong… — Jon Corzine
I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is… — Noy Holland
Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming. — Paulo Freire
The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity. — Paulo Freire
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to be 'hosts' of… — Paulo Freire
In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses this speaker loves.… — Mark Doty
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are… — Edmund Leach
To our way of thinking the Indians' symbol is the circle, the hoop. Nature wants to be round. The bodies of human beings and animals… — John Fire Lame Deer
There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it. — Yanni
The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance… — Jacques d'Amboise
Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them. — Olof Palme
Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production. — Eric Hobsbawm
In this conversation we discover another possibility: living in a way, now, moment to moment, that makes a difference to life. We discover that as… — Werner Erhard
Human beings did not have rights. Human beings created, from nothing, the domain of human rights. They called it up. They languaged it. They communicated it. Communication has that… — Werner Erhard

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