“Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.” ThinkingHumansHas BeensFactsSidesHuman BeingsEmotionCenturyKeysElementsIntellectualAspectTragicBeing Human20th CenturyAspects Of Life Author:Bill Viola
“The nastier the e-mail, the more likely I am to respond because they`ll realize there`s a human being on the other side.” HumansSidesRealizingHuman BeingsMail Author:Jonathan Capehart
“Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God's behalf. This 'blasphemy of certainty' is also rife among secularists who in their case have not God but science or the proletariat on their side.” HumansWarOpportunityNamesSpeakSidesHuman BeingsCasesAtheistCertaintyConvinceRighteousnessBehalfBlasphemyProletariat Book:God Is Not One Source: God Is Not One
“This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures. Everywhere we look we see brutality, stupidity, until it seems that there is nothing else to be seen but that--a descent into barbarism, everywhere, which we are unable to check. But I think that while it is true there is a general worsening, it is precisely because things are so frightening we become hypnotized, and do not notice--or if we notice, belittle--equally strong forces on the other side, the forces, in short, of reason, sanity and civilization.” IfsThinkingHumansLooksHardReasonSeemsStrongForceSidesHuman BeingsAliveCivilizationCreaturesStupidityChecksRationalSanityFrighteningBrutalityDescentBarbarismBelittle Book:Prisons We Choose to Live Inside Source: Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
“I'm honored to be at the side of Michele Bachmann. She is a great congresswoman. She is a great human being, and she is a true American patriot.” HumansSidesHuman BeingsPatriotHonoredAmerican Patriot Author:Jon Voight
“We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.” PeopleWantHumansEndsStatesOrderSidesHuman BeingsDignityIndependentMiseryPalestinianIsraeli Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.” IfsGivingHumansArtSidesHuman BeingsPowerfulLowsConnectionsPatientSensesSensualityGiving InSensuousAtrophyPuritanismAnesthesia Author:Anais Nin
“You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.” PeopleHumansMeanRealityEvilSidesDarkHuman BeingsSituationTeachBoundariesAppropriateRealismDark SideMalicious Author:Richard Rohr
“As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.” WantHumansChildrenCharacterKidsAbleParentSidesHuman BeingsFiguresShapesOur ChildrenClarityYour ChildrenGood Character Author:Joan Cusack
“Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.” HumansSometimesSidesFriendshipHuman BeingsFriendsBalanceScalesGrainOur Relationship Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.” GivingHumansEvilSidesDarkHuman BeingsPsychologyStringsNot InterestedDark Side Author:Lars von Trier
“I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren't allowed to be in touch with, their feminine side. To me they're whole human beings, more so than most of the straight men that I know.” KnowsMenFeelsHumansKindWholeCertainSidesHuman BeingsGayFeminineSensitivityGay Men Author:Madonna Ciccone
“It comes out of human beings, it comes from the dark side of the human being, when people don't give a hoot about other people and they'll steal and rob and rob the food out of baby's mouths, so it's incumbent on every new generation to develop a social conscience and to really defend themselves. And that takes demonstrations sometimes.” PeopleGivingHumansSometimesSocialSidesDarkHuman BeingsGenerationsBabyMouthsConscienceStealingDemonstrationDark SideNew GenerationIncumbentsHoot Author:Luis Valdez
“Nobody here could ever talk about a heaven on earth. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the other side of death, and on this side flourished the injustices, the cruelties, the meanness that elsewhere people so cleverly hushed up. Here you could love human beings nearly as God loved them, knowing the worst: you didn't love a pose, a pretty dress, a sentiment artfully assumed.” PeopleHumansEarthHeavenSidesHuman BeingsKnowingWorstDressesInjusticeCrueltyGod LoveSentimentsElsewhereMeannessHeaven On Earth Author:Graham Greene