Human-beings Quotes

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an id...

The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of ...

A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he ha...

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic co...

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the...

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister th...

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta...

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dicta...

to treat a human being as an animal - as a mere space-binder - because humans have certain animal pr...

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear th...

the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and...

as long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this...

Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human bein...

From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched ...

The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated—yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the most ...

It was entirely taken for granted that there wasn't any lying in our family, and I was advanced in a...

People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewher...

Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyr...

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, prete...

But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years ...

The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

...when I see a man or woman alone, he or she looks mysterious to me, which is only to say that for ...

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the crea...

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We ...

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc...

Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, ...