Human Beings Quotes - Page 6

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

Karl Kraus

Miracle, Flight, Stills

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.

Margaret Thatcher

Believe, Numbers, People

Margaret Thatcher (1977). “Let our children grow tall: selected speeches, 1975-1977”

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Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.

Jacqueline Bisset

Successful, Interesting, Way

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True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

Bertrand Russell

True Happiness, Godlike, Humans

Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.238, Routledge

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A corporation is simply a form of organization used by human beings to achieve desired ends... Protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations like Hobby Lobby, Conestoga, and Mardel protects the religious liberty of the humans who own and control those companies.

Samuel Alito

Religious, Exercise, Reality

"Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U.S. ___". The U.S. Supreme Court case (Samuel Alito's opinion for the Court), supreme.justia.com. June 30, 2014.

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When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

Ana Castillo

Suicide, Cancer, Political

Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books

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Tall poplars--human beings of this earth!

Paul Celan

Earth, Humans, Tall

Paul Celan (1980). “Paul Celan: poems”

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Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

Philip Jose Farmer

Art, Nature, Men

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Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Nice, Simple, Men

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death? With Christ? Because it's the only way that God can get glory out of a human being!

Paris Reidhead

Death, God, Religious

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... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

Hortense Odlum

Marriage, Disappointment, Business

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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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We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

Malala Yousafzai

Wisdom, Hands, History

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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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Being born on the earth is the highest honor and greatest privilege. To be alive as human beings gives us the chance to pull off exquisite and Herculean feats of magic that are not possible in nirvana or heaven or any other so-called paradise, higher dimension, or better place,being alive right now is the greatest gift i got from God.

Rob Brezsny

Inspirational, Giving, Heaven

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We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

Howard Gardner

Focus, Needs, Want

"The Global Search for Education: What Do We Value Most?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2011.

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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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Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood, of seeing oneself in a new perspective, and of understanding more about life.

Ellen Galinsky

Caring, Profound, Perspective

Ellen Galinsky (1987). “The Six Stages of Parenthood”, Da Capo Press

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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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Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.

Mary Barnett Gilson

Work, Mean, Majority

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One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

Mary Barnett Gilson

Faults, Weakness, Purpose

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