Human Beings Quotes - Page 25

• Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

  Don Marquis

  Men, Thinking, Civilization

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.71, Doubleday

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• No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

  Graham Greene

  Safe, Furniture, Architecture

  Graham Greene (1982). “A Burnt-Out Case”, Viking Adult

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• The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish "belonging," although this kind of speech and thought is precisely calculated to avoid contact and so makes belonging impossible.

  Paul Goodman

  Real, Giving, Goal

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.42, New York Review of Books

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• It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. The problem with this linkage between religion and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.

  Sam Harris

  Helping Others, Thinking, People

  "Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival" symposium, November 2006.

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• I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible, but human beings invest a lot of cleverness trying to cling to past events, real or imagined. And because we can't succeed, we get angry and frustrated and feel guilty. Except the Buddhists.

  Robert Reed

  Buddhist, Real, Believe

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• I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.

  Ben Folds

  Eye, People, Earth

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I think all human beings are at least a little bit Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and many of us are downright quadrophenic.

  Dave Smalley

  Thinking, Drs, Littles

  Source: www.pmakid.com

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• Sexuality is a topic that has huge shifts in -society. Attitudes toward different sexualities change, but the actual sexuality of a human being is something that's consistent, and it's consistently interesting, and so people write about it.

  Ben Barnes

  Attitude, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Be in the moment as an actor and as a human being, and you're going to be happy.

  Mark Webber

  Actors, Moments, Humans

  Source: collider.com

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• What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is very complex. It reaches all the complexities of our life on this Earth. Peace - that's a very complex idea, peace, so we can't get it as human beings.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Ideas, Earth, Said

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

  Woody Guthrie

  Machines, Bigs, Humans

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being.

  Ziggy Marley

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Ziggy Marley Explains His Identity". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. May 7, 2009.

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• We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

  Tom Hardy

  Psychosis, Way, Fit

  "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles could be anybody - they could be white, they could be black. To show the world that we have more in common than we have different with each other is to me the ultimate goal of all of that. It does help unite in people's mind the thought that people are the same. Yes, there's going to be cultural differences, but for the most part, we are all in the same gang as human beings.

  Mekhi Phifer

  White, Differences, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I do think it's important to be smiling and not make it all about business. You'll look back and regret it later, if you don't take advantage of your youth and your ability to travel. And it gives you something to pull from and inspiration to play your characters, and for your life and your development as a human being.

  Nina Dobrev

  Regret, Inspiration, Character

  "The Final Girls" Star Nina Dobrev Talks the Surprising Horror Film, "Vampire Diaries", and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 9, 2015.

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• People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Thinking, People, Creative

  "HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Jeff Goldblum Talks Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s New Detective and More!". Interview, eclipsemagazine.com. April 29, 2009.

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• What we're doing is saying what happens with the establishment and how are we as ordinary human beings are used as pawns. What do we really know about what goes on! We think we are a democracy.... Are we? I'm not so sure.

  David Suchet

  Thinking, Democracy, Ordinary

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.

  John Trudell

  Reality, Way, Given

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.

  John Trudell

  Religious, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• As human beings we're living in a reality of industrial madness.

  John Trudell

  Reality, Madness, Humans

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We're all human beings and we all have feelings. And we all live in this industrial meat grinder where we don't really understand love anymore.

  John Trudell

  Feelings, Meat, Humans

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I like to think that even with some of the more intense ones sometimes there is humour in there, you try to make a complete human being, whether the guy is good or bad.

  Ray Liotta

  Thinking, Guy, Trying

  "Wild Hogs - Ray Liotta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

  Cameron Diaz

  Wall, Thinking, Stories

  "The Holiday - Cameron Diaz interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us all out of the troubles that we find ourselves in.

  Paul Bettany

  Thinking, Important, Language

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I feel there's so much still to learn about acting. But there is some magic in the capturing of performance and in the process of editing a performance. The psychology of human beings and what's coming through the face... that fascinates me.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Editing, Psychology, Magic

  "Coriolanus - Ralph Fiennes interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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