Top 490 Human Being Quotes

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female – whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Simone de Beauvoir
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
Norman Cousins
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Gloria Steinem
My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
Kanye West
You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
KaDee Strickland
Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I’ve ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he’s a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.
Anthony LaPaglia
Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is – Spirit!
Buddy Ebsen
I dislike the concept of ‘chic’ being the highest compliment for a human being. I’d rather someone be nice than to be chic.
Kanye West
Today’s children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
Gary Bauer
I’m pretty self-aware, and I am an embarrassingly flawed human being in a ton of ways.
Lil Dicky
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer’s body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Martha Graham
Hey, I’m a human being also.
Shia LaBeouf
The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
Fidel Castro
Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.
Marianne Williamson
What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.
Avery Brooks
I’m only a human being.
Wayne Rooney
Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.
Don Lemon
The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a M

The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God – or Allah, in Arabic – and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we… bear witness that there is no God but God.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
Nobody’s all good or bad, and nobody’s all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.
Anna Gunn
The biggest and the most important thing my mother told me is to be a good actor you first need to be a really good human being and an honest person.
Janhvi Kapoor
I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I’m not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.
Caitlin Moran
Money commands everything because that’s our interpretation of capitalism… what kind of world is that? It’s a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.
Muhammad Yunus
Being a mountain boy, I have always understood the importance of trees, animals and nature for a human being.
Jubin Nautiyal
Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.
Eudora Welty
I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
Jo Brand
I am not trendy. I am not ‘in fashion.’ I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life.
Thierry Mugler
Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn’t far behind.
Arthur Smith
I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.
Ziggy Marley
I don’t like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn’t want to portray them in the most glowing colours.
King Hu
I consider myself as a human being with lots of ups and downs and learning from a lot of failures before I can succeed.
Kalki Koechlin
‘Hamlet’ is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what’s real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
Michael Sheen
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men’s prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
Emmeline Pankhurst
I think, as written, ‘Assassins’ simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I’ve got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.
Joe Mantello
Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation… but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement.
Paul Hawken
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
Morihei Ueshiba
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Horace Mann
Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
Youssef Ziedan
Jesus never called a human being a sinner.
Robert H. Schuller
I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
Taylor Swift
Certainly another Brad Sherman might be annoying, but it isn’t something society doesn’t know how to deal with. But a new level of human being is something else.
Brad Sherman
I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united.
Drew Gilpin Faust
Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.
Gloria Gaynor
The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
Olivia De Havilland
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Ida Pauline Rolf
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
Elias Canetti
I’m just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I’m honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don’t care what people say. I never cared about what people say.
Criss Angel
My mother is the bravest human being I’ve ever come across.
Poppy Delevingne
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton
You are a human being, you do react. If you react to ne

You are a human being, you do react. If you react to negativity, you also react to positivity.
Jaya Bachchan
I do not take steroids. I never have. It’s sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don’t do that. That’s not me. I wouldn’t feel like a human being.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I never said I wanted a ‘happy’ life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.
Isabel Allende
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll
It’s just as important to be a good human being as it is to be a good actor.
Shannon Purser
I think if you let go of preconceived ideas, you’ll find everything in this life. For me, my understanding is God is all that is, God is everything, all that is, and your true God is within, and that’s the power that you have as a human being.
Jon Anderson
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
Norman Cousins
I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human.
John Trudell
I’m an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I’m wrong, I always apologize. I’m a big enough man to do that.
Action Bronson
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.
Joseph Epstein