H Quotes
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“Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.”
Source: The Fall of the Towers
“Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.”
Source: The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten
“Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that
feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.”
“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
“Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.”
“Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.”
“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
Source: Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
“Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.”
“Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.”
“Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.”
“Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of empire, has brought about the nightmare Malcolm predicted. And as the Digital Age and our post-literate society implant a terrifying historical amnesia, these crimes are erased as swiftly as they are committed.”
“Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.”
“Human beings can learn valuable lessons in conservation of necessary personal resources for accomplishing the fundamental tenants of life by observing a judiciously paced turtle determinedly and stealthily traversing the world.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.”
“Human beings can't be "illegal" There's no such thing as an illegal human being.
Human Beings can do illegal things but they can't be illegal themselves, that's a racist term that you're promoting.
So when you like to think that you're not a racist person this is why you are regardless of what you think.
We are not our perceptions of what we think we are, we are the realities of what we do and say, never forget that.”
“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”
“Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.”
“Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.”
Source: Northern Lights: His Dark Materials 1
“Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.”
“Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.”
“Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.”
“Human beings cannot live without stories.”
“Human beings cannot probe the mind of God by asking themselves what they would do if they were God. They are men and not God. And if they are virtuous men, they will wait for God to reveal himself under conditions of his own choosing.”
“Human Beings cannot see their own mistake unless Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) shows him. This isn’t the only mistake. One is surrounded by endless mistakes.”
Source: Fault is of the Sufferer
“Human beings' capacity to adjust to almost anything was supposed to be one of their greatest virtues, but it was also one of their greatest weaknesses. It rendered them compliant, allowed them to be exploited.”
Source: The Store
“Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith
“Human beings cobble together their own mythologies over time. I was unloved, I was too loved, I was popular, a loner, misunderstood, persecuted, stupid, a winner. We use the past to explain ourselves.”
Source: The Ditch
“Human beings comes from heaven.”
“Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile...But this happy sensation wears off. After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.”
“Human beings consist of a complex composite, an aggregate of several material elements not shared by inanimate objects. A person consists of feelings, thoughts, and experiences, and every person apprehends how they stand in relation to other people and nature. Matching other people, I am composed of a mind, a thinking contraption that is capable of registering pleasurable and painful physical sensations. We each maintain selected degrees of indifference and consciousness awareness. We each hold a range of cognitive mental perceptions, instinctual fears and desires, emotional impulses, mental formulations, individual dispositions, and recognizable personality traits. Most people also profess to embrace moral beliefs and adhere to various ethical precepts. Other mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, and other forms of cellular life might share some, but not all of these distinctive qualities. No other life form possesses all these mental qualities collected into a single aggregate.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Human beings construct their individual life stories by navigating a complex network of recursive natural structures that guide and shape human behavior. Akin to a revolving top spinning on its axis, an inexhaustible number of natural responses are available to a person when conducting a walkabout in a chaotic world. A mature person comprehends that there are many ways to conduct their lives, appreciates the richness and complexities of alternative ways of life, and makes conscious decisions pertaining to what course of behavior will provide them with personal bliss.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Human beings crave freedom at their core.”
“Human beings create more than they destroy.”
“Human beings disappear; their histories remain.”
Source: Technics and Time, 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise
“Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy.”
“Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.”
Source: With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
“Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.”
“Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.”
“Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular and we prefer the “out of sight, out of mind” escape. But there comes a time when issues must be recognized as issues — and resolved. The democratic way of life is at stake. You cannot meet today’s crisis tomorrow. You cannot pick and choose when and what you will do at your personal convenience. You cannot dawdle with history.
We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.”
Source: Reveille for Radicals
“Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.”
“Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.”
Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality
“Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.”
“Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near”
Source: The Jesus I Never Knew
“Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.”
“Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.”
Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality
“Human beings do terrible things to each other and the tragic thing about it all is the way the remembrance of past hurt can rob us of our future and become the narrative of our lives.”
Source: On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable?
“Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.”
“Human beings don't kill people, only animals kill human beings...”
“Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!”
Source: Old Wine: A Novel