Between Human Quotes
36 quotes by 34 authors
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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone…
— Maya Angelou
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Humanity may destroy the possibilities for life on earth unless the freedom and power that we have acquired are channeled in new creative directions by…
— Steven Clark Rockefeller
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To me, a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether you have a white or a black skin, and…
— J M Coetzee
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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
— Abraham Lincoln
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What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns…
— Edward Mayhew
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The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently…
— Gustav Landauer
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Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors…
— Francois-Noel Babeuf
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And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the great difference between…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself,…
— Shulamith Firestone
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The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is…
— Konrad Lorenz
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The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.
— Michael Tilson Thomas
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There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God…
— A B Simpson
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Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all…
— Wendell Berry
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Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better…
— Max Lerner
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Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as…
— Elizabeth Janeway
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The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.
— William C. Brown
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If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection…
— Wu Guanzhong
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The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union…
— Franz Kafka
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