Top 464 Human Beings Quotes

What must be the nature of the world… if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?
Paul Ricoeur
We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.
Justin Sane
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
Miles Franklin
If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that follow a religious narrative. We don’t burn witches anymore. Most people would consider that barbaric. We don’t sacrifice human beings, which was a religious act practiced by numerous cultures on this planet.
Greg Graffin
I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told – and it first happens when you’re a kid.
David Chase
I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to

I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we’ve seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka… and welcome to my chocolate factory.
Kanye West
If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.
Minoru Yamasaki
I always think of my characters as alive human beings and try to generate questions around their life and understand their socio-political background. It was a lot of questioning and reading.
Abhishek Banerjee
Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.
Bertrand Piccard
Human beings change. Sometimes we change because of our circumstances and experiences.
Kristofer Hivju
Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.
John Thorn
I love, I love human beings, studying them.
Soleil Moon Frye
I think that now that we are seeing multimedia types of productions with videos and pictures and human beings performing the acts that animals used to perform, such as in Cirque du Soleil and other traveling troops, there is no need to parade animals around anymore in cages for personal gratification.
Montel Williams
It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.
Thich Nhat Hanh
You don’t need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service.
Mike Thompson
I’m really passionate about representation in film. I feel like the world is dominated by such a small group of human beings. There are so many different kinds of people that aren’t represented, that don’t have characters who look like them.
Amandla Stenberg
Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.
Gene Robinson
What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.
Jacqueline Novogratz
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
Stephen Covey
I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It’s just a weakness that we human beings have for control – we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
Dave Davies
As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.
Randeep Hooda
I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, ‘Men are like this, women are like this.’ Nobody was telling me, ‘Don’t get dirty, don’t play in the mud, girls don’t do that.’
St. Vincent
We’ve not given any attention to the people in their 50s and 60s, who need attention, education and engagement, in terms of the society and in terms of their identity as human beings.
Pankaj Kapur
People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.
David Millar
The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
Vanessa Williams
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I have found little that is ‘good’ about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
Sigmund Freud
Let us stop saying ‘white Americans’ and ‘colored Americans,’ let us try once and for all saying… Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.
Josephine Baker
Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways.
Ansel Elgort
The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
Said Nursi
Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.
Tom Hodgkinson
As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God’s design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.
Stockwell Day
We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.
Jeannette Rankin
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
John Ruskin
People think Selena and The Weeknd are dating for publicity, and that’s not how things works. These are real human beings. They don’t just date to get more famous. They’re already the most famous artists!
Madison Beer
I really care about people, and I would need someone to also genuinely value other human beings and want to be connected with people in the world and to know about other cultures. That might not be a high standard for someone else, but for me, it’s really important to try and stick to that.
Aja Naomi King
The only bond worth anything between human beings is th

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
Jesse Owens
I’ve seen people that don’t treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they’re not treated that well. It’s very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.
Dick Van Patten
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men’s apples and head their cabbages.
Cyrano de Bergerac
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.
Carl Barks
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.
Ray Kurzweil
When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
It isn’t something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are ‘marked’ with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.
Guy Finley
Human beings desire comfort and familiarity.
Vic Mensa
You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology.
Bjarke Ingels
You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as human beings is through art, and the way we process emotions – I know I do – is through recognizing experiences on screen or in novels or in paintings.
Rosamund Pike
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.
Matthew Shultz
We need art. We’ve been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
Lili Taylor
Because we are all human beings, we are all HIV-eligible.
Brande Roderick
Science began as one of the noblest expressions of man’s reason. It will continue to serve humanity so long as it never forgets that human beings remain the heart of its purpose.
Robert Kennedy
Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Stephen Covey
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
George Orwell
After the age of 40, human beings are prone to various infection, diseases and physical damage. Engaging in regular exercise is the only way to combat such issues.
Vivek
Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.
Jim James
I’ve done teaching and things like that because if you’re acting, you’re becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
Rachel Miner
The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
James Randi