Human Beings Quotes - Page 24

• Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

  Epicurus

  Cities, Humans, Security

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• Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Names, Race, People

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• Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.

  Dennis Altman

  Identity, Matter, Manipulation

  Dennis Altman (1974). “Homosexual; oppression and liberation”, Lane, Allen

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• ... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain things occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Pain, Lines, Able

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• Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis. 'I feel so rotten about myself. I don't produce as much acorns as the one next to me.'

  Adyashanti

  Tree, Insane, Rotten

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• The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Psychological, Process, Results

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• How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Book, Knowledge, Cutting

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• Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Work, Organization, Groups

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• When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he enters, as is nearly always done without regard to the circumstances of the man who lies sick; he should not remain standing while he considers what he ought to do, as though the fate of a human being were a mere trifle; rather let him condescend to sit down for awhile.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Lying, Fate, Men

  Bernardino Ramazzini (1983). “Diseases of workers”

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• The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

  Christopher Reeve

  Character, Interesting, Fiction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.

  Spike Lee

  Stage, Humans, Bad Things

  "Spike Lee Talks OLDBOY, Why He Considers the Film a Reinterpretation, Performances of Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen & His Confidence in Audience Turnout". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2013.

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• Everyone is an artist. Everyone is creative in their own way and that that creativity is a great thing. It's a human thing and it needs to be nurtured and it can help us go down life's path and help us to become deeper, richer, more satisfied human beings.

  Rainn Wilson

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What happens when you're naked is that people get that you're really just a human being. There are parts of it that are pretty appalling, and there are parts that are okay. That's what it looks like. If you can embrace and accept what people look like in the altogether, it's not so difficult to accept them with their clothes on.

  James Cromwell

  Clothes, People, Naked

  "James Cromwell Talks STILL MINE, Playing a Lead Role, Questioning Authority, AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2013.

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• So we, Democrats, have a responsibility there, every one of us, both to try to treat the Republicans with respect and as human beings to try to work with them on every issue we can, and then if those cannons are fired at us, we've got to stand up and fight back. If you lay down and you look like a deer caught in the headlights, then you will confirm the assault. And so we have to fight back.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Fighting, Issues

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The happiest moments in our life aren't "Oh I got a new hat or a wonderful silvery object, some glistening bauble." But it's when you connect with another human being. If you can find the $18 in your pocket, you are purchasing dreams with that money.

  Russell Brand

  Dream, Hats, Pockets

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2011.

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• I'm an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human being.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Character, Collaboration, Actors

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Remember...that each child is a separate person, yours forever, but never fully yours. She can never be all you wished or wanted,or all you know she could be. But she will be a better human being if you can let her be herself.

  Stella Chess

  Children, Forever, Individuality

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• Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want. There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there's nothing there to grab hold of.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Distance, Thinking

  "Freedom and the Unknown". www.adyashanti.org. 2002.

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• Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others?

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Unique, Talking

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.

  Rosa Parks

  Rights, Citizens, Humans

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• The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she’s wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don’t stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Teaching, Men, Lust

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• We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

  Os Guinness

  Humans

  Os Guinness (2008). “Rising to the Call”, p.45, Harper Collins

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• The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, and the oppressed. In the end we will be judged in terms of love.

  Leonardo Boff

  Destiny, Naked, Littles

  Leonardo Boff (1980). “The Way of the Cross: Way of Justice”

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• Whenever we encounter a human being in such a way that we feel absolutely certain of the infinity of that person's worth and the eternity of his or her life, that is Easter.

  Eugen Drewermann

  Easter, Encounters, Way

  Eugen Drewermann (1994). “Dying We Live: Meditations for Lent and Easter”

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• We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

  Alan Watts

  People, Giving, Sun

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal”, p.85, Vintage

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