Top 490 Human Being Quotes

Cee Lo is the coolest human being I have ever met in my life.
Blake Shelton
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
Jose Saramago
A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.
Goran Persson
I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, ‘I’ve made mistakes, I’m off course, I need to change.’ Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that’s why it interests me so.
Joss Whedon
I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army, and I’m very proud of that. But I’ve always felt that I was more than one-dimensional. I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
Norman Schwarzkopf
You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
Malcolm X
If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
Maya Angelou
Having a human conversation is not something I’ve had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.
John Oliver
I’m a human being before anything else.
Freida Pinto
Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.
Rita Dove
Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.
Lou Holtz
As a fair skinned blonde, I disappeared into the background. I’ve always been a loner, so I suppose dyeing my hair red was a way to say, ‘I’m here, I exist, I’m a human being and you can’t just push me aside.’
Deborah Ann Woll
At the end of the day, I’m a human being and I just think that’s what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am.
Tinie Tempah
My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.
Mark Leyner
The true teachers and educators are not those who have

The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.
Rudolf Steiner
A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
Nancy Kress
Before you’re a writer, you’re a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.
Wole Soyinka
You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being – especially a vain one like ‘Castle’ -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen!
Nathan Fillion
We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
Randall Terry
I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It’s to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It’s also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
P. J. Harvey
I hate the idea that you somehow, as a human being, have to be put in a box. There’s no reason why lawyers can’t be fun – or actresses can’t be serious.
Amal Clooney
A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That’s how much power you need just to lie down. And if you’re a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you’ll need about 250 watts. That’s how much energy it takes to run about and find food.
Geoffrey West
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Thomas Mann
Shakespeare’s stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.
James McAvoy
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old – somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
Connie Nielsen
Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song ‘With or Without You.’ You just don’t stay behind a character and make people laugh or cry. At some point you have to take off that mask, and when you do, you’re a human being, not just an actor. After all, I’m Catherine the person first. You share that.
Catherine Hicks
I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don’t see how I can ever trust any human being again.
Ulysses S. Grant
For a girl, the wedding is when you’re married. For a guy, it’s when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.
Max Greenfield
No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.
Jim Brown
It taught me that Clinton’s instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
Paul Begala
I think there’s a part when you sign your soul to the devil and start working in Los Angeles that you also sign away that you could be a human being in anyone’s eye. You’re like a robot!
Amber Heard
I’m not a politician, I’m not an ideologue, I’m not an organizer anymore. I’m a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can’t force that feeling.
Hari Kondabolu
Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.
John Dickerson
Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn’t help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
Beah Richards
I feel it’s important to show that one thing that you do doesn’t define you as a human being. It doesn’t mean there aren’t ramifications or you shouldn’t pay for that but its not who you are.
Ryan Gosling
I’m gonna make music, and I’m gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That’s really all I’m trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.
Mac Miller
Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don’t put it on a platform. I don’t campaign about it. It’s just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being – my wife, Sheryl – which I was never able to do before.
Rob Lowe
The practical case for manned spacef light gets ever-weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturisation – indeed, as a scientist or practical man, I see little purpose in sending people into space at all. But as a human being, I’m an enthusiast for manned missions.
Martin Rees
Working with Al Pacino was an amazing experience. He’s such an amazing guy. He’s an incredible performer and actor – and, aside from that, just a generous human being.
Seth Numrich
No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
William Glasser
Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
Rudy Giuliani
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
Simone Weil
Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
Rosa Parks
I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.
Hit-Boy
I think I’ve shown the world I’m a fierce competitor, yes. But I’ve also shown them that I’m a fierce human being.
Adam Rippon
I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart

I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.
Shinzo Abe
I really don’t care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.
Betty White
The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.
Sukarno
I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.
Edward Snowden
Each human being exists because there’s something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.
Herbie Hancock
The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.
Evelyn Glennie
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
D. H. Lawrence
I just see myself as a human being that’s concerned about life.
Charlie Haden
So I’m sorry, I’m going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.
Mel Torme
I’m not a saint. I’m not an angel. I’m a human being.
Annie Lennox
You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she’s brilliant. She’s a brilliant entertainer, she’s a brilliant lady, and she’s a wonderful human being, and the community doesn’t like it.
Jerry Lewis
If I don’t need the money, I don’t work. I’m going to spend time with my family and friends, and I’m going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.
James Spader
Plant or animal, black or white, gay or straight, man or woman, I always see things deeper than just a surface. I always look deep inside the person and you will see a beautiful person in every human being.
Sergei Polunin