Human Beings Quotes - Page 34

• Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.

  John Stuart Mill

  Destiny, Class, Numbers

  John Stuart Mill (1849). “Principles of political economy, with some of their applications to social philosophy”, p.314

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• The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or child, in turn, is challenged by God to make his free choice between doing God's will and refusing to do it.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Children, Men, Choices

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• As human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happiness...there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction. It is grasping and attachment that is the problem, not the pleasure themselves.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Pain, Confused, Attachment

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• The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

  Mark Twain

  Joy, Heaven, Intercourse

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• Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

  Immanuel Kant

  Instruments, Ends, Should

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• Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Boredom, Desire

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.3, Routledge

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• Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

  Alvin Toffler

  Kings, Cutting, Knights

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• Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to the limit of his ability for the expression of his own reactions to life. Even if he can never carry his efforts far enough to realize dance in its highest forms, he may experience the sheer joy of the rhythmic sense of free, controlled, and expressive movement, and through this know an addition to life to which every human being is entitled.

  Margaret H'Doubler

  Children, Expression, Order

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• I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Squares, Stories, Want

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• And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be mercilessly crushed under a machinelike dictatorship, be it of industry, state or organization, all their lives long.

  Sylvia Plath

  Organization, Long, Individuality

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.85, Anchor

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• There is no accounting for human beings.

  Mark Twain

  Humans, Accounting

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.185, Mark Twain

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• Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view.

  Jean Rhys

  Struggle, Views, Humans

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• If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

  Virginia Woolf

  Successful, Night, Sight

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• Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.

  John Stuart Mill

  Growing Up, Pain, Differences

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Greatest Happiness Principle - Utilitarianism, On Liberty & The Subjection of Women: The Principle of the Greatest-Happiness: What Is Utilitarianism (Proofs & Principles), Civil & Social Liberty, Liberty of Thought, Individuality & Individual Freedom, Utilitarian Feminism”, p.148, Madison & Adams

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• You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional.

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  Ram Dass

  Personality, Body, Life Experience

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• The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one.

  John Stuart Mill

  Together, Kind, Virtue

  John Stuart Mill (2012). “The Subjection of Women”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Plato, Compassion, Self

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• Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Creativity, People

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• Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with "me" and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Feelings, Goes On

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.80, Image

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• Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

  Maya Angelou

  Song, Listening, Sometimes

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• For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Powerful, Sadness, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Eagle's Gift”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

  Mark Twain

  Needs, Humans, Creatures

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• I think the challenge is, in fashion everybody wants to get rich and famous and it's easy to get rich and famous by being a bad person. But the challenge is to achieve your goals-whatever they are-while staying a decent human being. That's where it came from.

  Katharine Hamnett

  Fashion, Thinking, Goal

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• If you sell the Vatican and you take that money and you use it to feed every single human being on the planet, you will get cah-azy pussy. All the pussy. I don't mean literally. That might not be your cup of tea. I don't know what your version of 'all the pussy' is. But you'll get all the pussy.

  Sarah Silverman

  Mean, Tea, Pussy

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• The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Order, Important, Messages

  "Hocus Pocus, or What's the Hurry, Son?". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1990.

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