If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
Orlando Bloom

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.
Ivan Turgenev

People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.
Kate Beckinsale

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
Billy Joel

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
Joan Miro

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
Donald Knuth

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
Barbara Ehrenreich

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.
Karl Jaspers

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
Heinrich Heine

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Heinrich Heine

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.
Thabo Mbeki

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
Wilhelm Reich

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
Mary Catherine Bateson

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
Andre Malraux

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
Barbara Jordan

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.
Bea Arthur

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
Edward Thorndike