Beings Quotes

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet.

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.