Human Beings Quotes
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
Maya Angelou
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Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.
Maya Angelou
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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To think with fear of the end of one's life is pretty general with human beings. It is one of the means nature uses to conserve the life of the species. Approached rationally that fear is the most unjustified of all fears, for there is no risk of any accidents to one who is dead or not yet born. In short, the fear is stupid but it cannot be helped.
Albert Einstein
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. Mencken
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All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
Harold Pinter
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We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
Maya Angelou
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When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.
Mary Doria Russell
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Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.
Soren Kierkegaard
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
