Human Beings Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.

  Zoltan Istvan

  Teaching, Important, Strive

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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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• On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.

  Bei Dao

  Hands, Useless, World

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• I have no ideals. I have no will that the world should be any better or worse or anything... Because I know that for every genius there exists a robbing murderer. There is nothing to do about that. The world is such that if you want to find the intensity within the genuine, you will at the same time find the criminals around the nearest corner. And if you eliminate that genetic quality in the human being, then everyone will become very inactive and very boring, but on the other hand we get rid of criminality.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Hands, Quality, Criminals

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• I always say that, like a scientist or anyone, you always want to be the problem-solver. You feel like, if you solve the greatest mystery or the greatest problem, then that makes you brilliant. It's the same thing with an actress. You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny and all the things that a person could be.

  Viola Davis

  Character, Want, Able

  "Viola Davis Exclusive Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 9, 2011.

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• We're all the scriptures. We live the scriptures. The scriptures doesn't manifest unless it is amongst human beings and the scriptures are for us, written by us. The scriptures didn't write itself. We wrote the scriptures.

  Sizzla

  Writing, Scripture, Manifest

  Source: www.thepier.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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• My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, even in that world, ignore that ugly reality. This is why my papers in mathematical sociology deal not with free choice among 30 flavors of ice-cream, but with social structure, social cohesion, and social marginality.

  Mario Bunge

  Reality, Ice, Roots

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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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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• I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist in a state of stasis - they are self-supporting, self-sustaining.

  Ken Yeang

  Nature, Thinking, Self

  "Q&A: Ken Yeang interview". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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• If you look into the way that materials are used in an ecological system you'll notice that you'll find that there is no waste. The waste of one organism becomes food for another and everything's recycled in an ecological system whereas in our human built environment there's a throughput system. We use something then we throw it away... We have to imitate nature and try to re-use everything we make as human beings or recycle them - when we cannot re-use or recycle them we should try to reintegrate them back into the natural environment.

  Ken Yeang

  Trying, Looks, Use

  "Q&A: Ken Yeang interview". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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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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• My values are primarily motivated by love for other people. I value the non-human world in large part because it's so vital to human beings. Even my appreciation for wilderness grows out of an understanding of how important wilderness can be for people.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Appreciation, People, Understanding

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people] to reconnect with what we really value and with the qualities of life that really can sustain us - which include reconnecting with our roles as citizens, community members, and human beings.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Opportunity, People, Addiction

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.

  Tom Peters

  Jobs, Business, Competition

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• The important thing is to go back to wholeness. It's time for human beings to come into a sustainable world.

  Chellis Glendinning

  Important, World, Humans

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we've chosen to govern ourselves.

  Adam Haslett

  Running, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: threeguysonebook.com

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• The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.

  Flemming Rose

  Growing Up, People, Being Different

  Source: theundercurrent.org

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• To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

  Ethan Canin

  Too Much, I've Learned, Force

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• What always strikes me in the story of Cain and Abel is how often the word "brother" is used. Cain killed his "brother." God says it was "the blood of your brother." The killing was done to another human being, a child of God like you, breaking that sacred bond of common humanity.

  Allan Boesak

  Brother, Children, Blood

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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