Human Beings Quotes

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
Ralph Steadman

In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up.
Elliott Erwitt

Time, Human, Made

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.
Tom Baker

Life, Religion, Human

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.
Susie Orbach

Human, Create, Style

I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth.
Kevin Richardson

Human, Balance, Earth

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.
Bob Brown

Faith, Great, Human

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.
Jonathan Frakes

Life, Human, Thought

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.
Robert Shea

Political, Human, Two

It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.
Guy Finley

Change, Human, Strange

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.
Richard Ford

Life, Human, Thought

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 and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.
Jon Corzine

Legal, Care, Human

No other animal bonds to a human being the way a dog does. And I suspect there is no other animal to which human beings can bond the way we can bond to a dog.
Robert Crais

Human, Dog, Animal

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.
James Purefoy

Cool, Sexy, Human

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
Seth Lloyd

Computers, Society, Human

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.
Marvin Olasky

Powerful, Human, Treat

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
Phillip E. Johnson

Human, Place, Within

Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?
Tom Hardy

Amazing, Cool, Fun

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
Kate Millett

Politics, Women, Human

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts.
Stephen Breyer

Human, Law, Trials

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.
Richard Thompson

Experience, Yourself, Human

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
Bill Moyers

Society, Care, Children

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
Walter Mosley

Love, Beauty, Art

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
Caprice Bourret

Simple, Human, Difficult

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.
Robert Zemeckis

Human, Isolation, Function

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason.
John Astin

Great, Enemy, Deep

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.
Gregg Easterbrook

Human, Evening, Same

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
Toru Takemitsu

Music, Human, Able

The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
Rachael Taylor

Nature, Truth, Human

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.
Gene Robinson

Time, Human, Hard

Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy.
Jill Scott

Work, Time, Fun

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