Human Beings Quotes - Page 20

• Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

  Desmond Tutu

  Awful, Humans

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, World, Awful

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

  Desmond Tutu

  Trustworthy, Interest, Humans

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fashion, Past, Return

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• Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.

  Maya Angelou

  Kings, Drs, Sense Of Humor

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• Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.

  Maya Angelou

  Kings, Powerful, Heart

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.

  Margaret Atwood

  Technology, Done, Form

  Source: www.slate.com

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• As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.

  Cornel West

  Stuff, Kind, Certain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

  Julia Alvarez

  Literature, Contradictory, Humans

  Source: ncac.org

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• Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

  Julia Alvarez

  Writing, Literature, Aliens

  Source: ncac.org

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• There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.

  Wole Soyinka

  People, Feels, Humans

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Long, Stories, Language

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• Dogs are intelligent beings; they are not human beings. The life of a dog - there's no equivalency with the life of a person, and if you are putting a dog in the line of danger to save human life, and they can do the job reasonably well, I mean, seriously, what about dignity and self-respect? I feel like going out to dinner, I think I will have my cocker spaniel host the show tonight.

  Tucker Carlson

  Dog, Jobs, Mean

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 7, 2005.

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• Human beings look so different from each other, voices are so different, everything about us is so individual, and that's so exciting and juicy and appealing, and we're attached to these things and they're so fascinating and beautiful - I don't just mean model-beautiful, but all the individual forms that people can take.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Beautiful, Mean, Voice

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I am against the war, but I do support our white troops. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm not a Republican. I'm not a member of the party of inclusion. Wonderful, tolerant, rational human beings they are.

  David Cross

  Funny, War, Party

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• I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.

  Judith Butler

  War, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life.

  Matthew Hussey

  Meaningful, Animal, Desire

  "Interview With Rising Star Matthew Hussey, Bestselling Author of Get The Guy and International Love Guru". Interview with Nicole Bryl, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• When you love, deeply love another human being, really deeply, somewhere you will feel that you are still alone, and this very beloved human being has no access.

  Irina Tweedie

  Deep Love, Being Real, Beloved

  Source: www.goldensufi.org

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• God is love, the human being is all love, only the human has forgotten it long ago.

  Irina Tweedie

  Long Ago, Forgotten, God Is Love

  Source: www.goldensufi.org

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• I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I didn't need to be making those discoveries, if I didn't feel the perpetual ignorance of being a human being.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Writing, Ignorance, Discovery

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Discovery, Way, Moments

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• I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship. I tried to see how and why, more and more, money is becoming a religion.

  Costa-Gavras

  Important, Saws, Becoming

  Source: progressive.org

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• Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.

  Jack Higgins

  Hollywood, Mixtures, Individual

  Source: www.blackfive.net

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• If you are an intelligent human being then you are interested in climate change because it's the most important issue of our time.

  Franny Armstrong

  Intelligent, Issues, Important

  Source: www.lidf.co.uk

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