Human Beings Quotes

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
Jonathan Coe

Politics, Human, Writing

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer

Life, Work, Important

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
Claude McKay

Human, Grow, Nations

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
John Templeton

Human, Describe, Divinity

Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
Alan Dean Foster

Mind, Revenge, Children

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'
Bharati Mukherjee

Human, Through, Fiction

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
Wilhelm Dilthey

Experience, Science, Human

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
J. M. Coetzee

Work, Human, Writing

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 complete human beings.
Marisa Tomei

Marriage, Women, Children

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
Harvey Cox

Religion, Live, Human

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.
Jung Chang

Government, Human, Same

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
Walter Kaufmann

Human, Problem, Place

Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
Gale Norton

Time, Long, Human

However, further research has shown that it is the normal condition for humans and for most other mammals. It seems pretty clear why this is the case for most mammals and for most human beings.
Marvin Harris

Human, Pretty, Why

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.
Marvin Harris

Important, Human, Needs

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
Michael Polanyi

Human, Social, Within

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.
Chely Wright

God, Alone, Human

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells

Women, Men, Death

Human beings crave freedom at their core.
John Ensign

Freedom, Human, Crave

The election in Iraq clearly demonstrates that Iraqi people are like people everywhere. They desire to create a future in an environment that is safe and allows them to reach their full potential as human beings, whatever that potential may be.
John Ensign

Future, Human, May

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
Elizabeth Janeway

Women, History, Human

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
Lili Taylor

Art, Human, Beginning

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.
Scott Nearing

War, Human, Building

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.
Chris Hedges

Human, Rules, Natural

I love, I love human beings, studying them.
Soleil Moon Frye

Love, Human, Studying

I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.
Annette Bening

Life, Love, Home

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
Harry Lorayne

Ignorance, Human, Healthy

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Nathalie Sarraute

Live, Human, Steps

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
Lloyd Alexander

Human, Learn, Genuine

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
J. Philippe Rushton

Life, God, Human

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