Human Beings Quotes - Page 17

• The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Differences, Two

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• God looks at the world through the eyes of love. If we, therefore, as human beings made in the image of God, also want to see reality rationally, that is, as it truly is, then we, too, must learn to look at what we see with love.

  Roberta Bondi

  Love, Eye, Reality

  Roberta Bondi (1995). “Memories of God: Theological Reflections on a Life”

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• Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.

  Dacher Keltner

  Giving, Care, Humans

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• We are naïve 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

  Blight, Human Condition, Humans

  Kate Millett (1975). “Flying”

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• We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human
  being.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Musician, Development, Students

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.14, New World Library

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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

  Fighting, Men, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Roots, Understanding, Commonwealth

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• Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates,
  sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Mirrors, Icons

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• I believe there's no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended. They're created and sustained by human beings. They can be ended by human beings. No matter how ancient the conflict, no matter how hateful, no matter how hurtful, peace can prevail.

  George J. Mitchell

  Peace, Believe, Hurtful

  "The Sadat Lectures: Words and Images on Peace, 1997-2008". Book edited by Shibley Telhami, 2010.

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• My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

  Shirley Chisholm

  Doe, Want, Humans

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.148, Take Root Media

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• While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings-upon the spirit that animates mankind.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Agency, Expression, Civilization

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• Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.

  Moms Mabley

  Children, White, Differences

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• It is so important not to let ourselves off the hook or to become apathetic or cynical by telling ourselves that nothing works or makes a difference. Every day, light your small candle.... The inaction and actions of many human beings over a long time contributed to the crises our children face, and it is the action and struggle of many human beings over time that will solve them-with God's help. So every day, light your small candle.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Struggle, Light

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• Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons or mass transport; it is irresponsibility. The loss of an acre of forest every second, the mass slaughter of elephants for their ivory, the extinction of entire species of plants, insects and animals all over the world is not something that "just happens" because there are more of us human beings. It happens because the race of ruling beings put in charge has almost wholly lost its sense of stewardship. We have turned away from God.

  Winkie Pratney

  Loss, Animal, Race

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• Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.

  Barry Commoner

  Ecosystems, Environmental, Degradation

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• My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.

  Bonnie Bassler

  Dark, Bacteria, Humans

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• I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

  Laura Z. Hobson

  Thinking, Humans, Happens

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• A handicapped person is a human being with the same heart as anyone else. It's not a misfortune if you can't hear-it's just an inconvenience.

  Aya Kito

  Heart, Inconvenience, Humans

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• The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.

  Eric Topol

  Doctors, Parody, Humans

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• Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.

  Lars von Trier

  Dark, Evil, Giving

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• As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.

  Viola Davis

  Artist, Together, Mixtures

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• I really felt the growth of myself as a human being, as a person [becoming a mother].

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mother, Growth, Becoming

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• People are afraid of change. We all are. Human beings are afraid of change, but change can be good.

  Jeff Pinkner

  People, Be Good, Afraid Of Change

  "Executive Producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman Interview FRINGE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2011.

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• The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.

  Chris Martin

  Jobs, Crazy, Real

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.

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• There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very important to engage with this idea, just as human beings, that we are free to do what we wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as one gets to know oneself, one finds that there are things that return again and again that you wanna do.

  Chris Martin

  Real, Mean, Artist

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.

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