Human being Quotes

• Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Ends
  • Human being
  • Treated

• For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

  

  John Calvin
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Crime

• The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Choice
  • Forces
  • Scientists

• The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.

  

  Benjamin Creme
  • Earth
  • Evolution
  • Masters

• Most of the time, perhaps 99 percent of the time, the defendant is guilty; his screams are the final protest of a human being about to lost his most precious possession, his freedom.

  

  Elizabeth Loftus
  • Freedom
  • Guilty
  • Screams

• Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the “skin-encapsulated ego.” Without love, we are self-centered, but love enables us to move the center of our lives outside our ego. Therefore it expands our lives and, needless to say, enriches it. Any human being would give anything to love or be loved. When it really happens, it is like heaven on earth.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Heaven
  • Ego
  • Love Is

• There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Humor
  • Face
  • Gleam

• I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Actress
  • I Hope
  • Showbiz

• Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Body
  • Trade
  • Human being

• To become a leader, you must first become a human being.

  

  Confucius
  • Leader
  • First
  • Human being

• Cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Animals
  • Human being
  • Cruelty

• And I believe that I will never be able to hate any human being for his so-called 'wickedness,' that I shall only hate the evil that is within me, though hate is perhaps putting it too strongly even then. In any case, we cannot be lax enough in what we demand of others and strict enough in what we demand of ourselves.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Evil
  • I Believe
  • Demand

• What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Child
  • Right
  • Bringing up

• The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Artist
  • Actor
  • Leather

• For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Sacrifice

• Because he said it as if he was the first human being who'd ever noticed. Maybe that's why so many people trusted him, because he had something in his voice, because he was well-spoken and had learned to modulate his speech-just so-and somehow, with that calm and controlled voice, he managed to rearrange the chaos of the world in such a way as to make it appear as if there really were a plan.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Voice
  • Chaos
  • Trusted

• You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Die
  • Lived
  • Wondering

• Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Actions
  • Nervous System
  • Communication mechanism

• If you insist on reducing it to its basic elements, it's the sure and simple knowledge that there's something more out there, something greater than yourself, than mankind: a grand plan, a design that can't be comprehended by you or by any other human being, because it is numinous, it is God's design, something only He can fathom.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Knowledge
  • Reducing
  • Fathom

• I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Human being
  • Self-knowledge
  • Trait

• The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

  

  Plato
  • Life
  • Living
  • Human being

• When our laws tell people that what lies behind the thin wall of a women's abdomen during pregnancy is not a human being and that the destiny of a preborn child lies with the private conscience of the mother, we are essentially telling society that life itself is not important enough to be called an inalienable right. If life itself is not the most fundamental of all rights, then what is?

  

  Bob Dornan
  • Mother
  • Society
  • Child

• John Cena is like the 2010 version of Bret Hart. Fans see him as a real decent, upstanding human being.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Human being
  • Decent

• The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Human being
  • Court
  • Corporations

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