Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

In the end, we’re all human. We all have the same values. We all want to be respected and treated with dignity.

I know more about taxes than any human being.

As human beings you cannot be apolitical, the way we frame a character is telling our politics.

Human beings are religious animals.

It is up to you to prove that human beings do not have to be prowling wolves or sly lynxes, but can be rational, just, and kindly members of a commonwealth.

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

May I hasten to support Mrs McGurgle’s contention that civil servants are human beings, and must be treated as such?

In Mexico you have death very close. That’s true for all human beings because it’s a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.

I don’t believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.

Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on other planets and far stars, forms that would seem bizarre to humans, as human life is bizarre to other life-forms.

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness…. Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile…. Not a single one but has at some time wept.

It is really in the end a far more humane proceeding than our earthly method of leaving children to grow into human beings, and then making machines of them.

Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.

All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means – for example, wealth and status – with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

Religion gives inspiration to act well. Not only that, it gives inspiration to the arts and to many other activities of human beings.

Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.

It’s good to remember that other human beings are like us. We are born the same way; we die the same way. While we’re alive it’s better to be able to trust each other as friends.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.

Man is an end in himself only by virtue of the divine in him – that which we designated at the outset as Reason, or, insofar as it has activity and power of self-determination, as Freedom.

By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except the steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.

The only good human being is a dead one.

Born out of concern for all beings.

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life

It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom

How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that’s really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

We’re all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.