The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Alexis de Tocqueville

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
Charles Darwin

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.
Henny Youngman

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Robinson

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Swami Vivekananda

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Swami Vivekananda

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
George Bernard Shaw

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Mel Brooks

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Mel Brooks

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin