Quotes on Beings

Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.

I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the kinds of things that human beings go through. I love to see spontaneity and 'inevitability.' How it gets there is going to shock the hell out of me, but it will get there somehow.

We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created a money-centric world.

We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human beings.

Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It's tiring.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

These movements aren't about anger. We're not angrily saying 'Black Lives Matter.' We're declaring it. It's a declaration. We want to be seen as robust, full human beings that have anger and have joy. We want to be able to just freely have that joy. Like everybody else does.

It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.

The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime.

I thought talking to human beings was just something that could make things complicated and unpleasant. So I didn't talk much. I just watched people.

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.

Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through.

Dr. King was one of the most inspiring human beings I ever met. He was such a warm, compassionate, and loving human being.

We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.

Human beings have always been mythmakers.

Individuals cannot be free if there are impediments to reaching their full potential as human beings.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

When you achieve equality, and freedom, and fairness, it's not because I grant it to you. It's because you fought for it because it is your right. This is not about benevolence or charity; it is about every human being's God-given right.