Human Beings Quotes - Page 13

• There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings

  Bonnie Greer

  People, Feminism, Kind

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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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• We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality,
  violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Long, Anxiety, Despair

  "Talks in Europe 1968". Jiddu Krishnamurti's 5th public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (May 22, 1968) as quoted in "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Volume 15 (1964-1965): The Dignity of Living", book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1992.

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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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• I think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul

  Patrick Swayze

  Thinking, Soul, Winner

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• I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

  Angelina Jolie

  Life, Mother, Men

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• The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

  Barbara M. White

  Education, Art, Exercise

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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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• We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

  Akhil

  Confused, Feelings, Wells

  "This Week in Fiction: Akhil Sharma". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 10, 2014.

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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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• How did you feel feeding doughnuts to a horse? Had a kick out of it, huh? Got a big laugh. Did you ever think of feeding doughnuts to a human being? No!

  Robert Riskin

  Horse, Thinking, Laughing

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• Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves.

  Simon Bolivar

  Enemy, Matter, Spirit

  "Simon Bolivar". Book by Gerhard Masur, 1948.

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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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• Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken, decisions aimed at strengthening that covenant between human beings and the environment, which should mirror the creative love of God, from whom we came and towards whom we are journeying.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Taken, Mean, Responsibility

  Pope Benedict XVI's Message for The Celebration of The World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. January 1, 2008.

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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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• The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Proud, Humans

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• Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Needs, Blind, Humans

  William Sloane Coffin (2008). “The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years”, p.354, Westminster John Knox Press

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• If human beings are able to take a fresh look at themselves as well as the universe and change their rigid mentalities, humankind will make a leap forward.

  Li Hongzhi

  Looks, Able, Leap

  "Falun Gong (English Version)". Book by Li Hongzhi, 2002.

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• Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.

  Normandi Ellis

  Perfect, Soul, Becoming

  Normandi Ellis (2009). “Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead”, Red Wheel/Weiser

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