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Human Beings Quotes (page 61)

The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections. Marcel Proust
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. Malcolm Gladwell
Saul Bellow quote: "between human beings there are only two alternatives, either..."
...between human beings there are only two alternatives, either brotherhood or crime. Saul Bellow
A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that 'No man is an island,' but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man. Philip K. Dick
Paulo Coelho quote: "But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced..."
But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear. Paulo Coelho
Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone? Haruki Murakami
I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? Elizabeth Gilbert
You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in a human being. With hatred, apparently, it is otherwise. Joseph Conrad
Dinesh D'Souza quote: "Freedom is a school of responsibility for human beings."
Freedom is a school of responsibility for human beings. Dinesh D'Souza
My work expresses an infatuation with human beings. I don’t believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon. Rebecca West
[From The Old Order]The Grandmother always treated her animal friends as if they were human beings temporarily metamorphosed . . . Katherine Anne Porter
Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses. Dean Koontz
Gene Roddenberry quote: "Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings..."
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard. Gene Roddenberry
it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs. E. E. Cummings
Flann O'Brien quote: "My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and..."
My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings. Flann O'Brien

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