Beings Quotes

3882 Beings quotes by 2151 unique authors

You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings. — James M. Kouzes
It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent… — Winston Churchill
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps. — Nathalie Sarraute
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as… — Marisa Tomei
Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation… — Swami Vivekananda
I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings — Toyo Ito
Think on this doctrine,-that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin… — Marcus Aurelius
All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in his joyless mind… — George Orwell
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within… — Maya Angelou
Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined… — Novalis
As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings… — Stephen Covey
Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Above all, those to whom the care of young minds has been entrusted should see to it that they respect both the smallest and largest… — Samson Raphael Hirsch
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold… — Samuel Johnson
Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their… — Dalai Lama
In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings. — Nhat Hanh
And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings. — Gautama Buddha
Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient… — Je Tsongkhapa
Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings. — August Wilhelm von Schlegel
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never… — Carl Barks
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants. — Martin Lewis Perl
If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can well… — Sigurd F. Olson
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? — Jonathan Coe
If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save… — David Sobel
I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more… — David Zindell

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