“Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.” HumansMadeTodayPoliticalHuman BeingsCitiesStreetsHugeWallTasteInstitutionsEntertainmentLondonAdvertisingEnterpriseSubtleFriendlyTyrantsUsersConformBankingPenetrateSinisterSubservientBanking SystemUser Friendly Author:J. G. Ballard
“I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time on, I loathed an economic that could put a huge part of its workforce on the streets with no compunction.” HumansHuman BeingsEconomicStreetsHugeForgottenRelatedDeprivationWorkforceErodeCompunction Author:Herbert Schiller
“Human beings are more alike than unalike. Whether in Paris, Texas, or Paris, France, we all want to have good jobs where we are needed and respected and paid just a little more than we deserve. We want healthy children, safe streets, to be loved and have the unmitigated gall to accept love. If we are religious, we want a place to perpetuate God. If not, we want a good lecture every once in a while. And everyone wants someplace to party on Saturday nights.” IfsWantHumansChildrenLittlesJobsNightReligiousHuman BeingsPartyAcceptingStreetsNeededHealthySafeDeservePaidFranceParisTexasSaturdayGood JobLecturesSaturday NightHealthy Children Author:Maya Angelou
“How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!” HumansDiesHuman BeingsAnimalPovertyStreetsAngelLonging Author:Mother Teresa
“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!” IfsWantHumansStillsRealShowsLightPastHuman BeingsCitiesStreetsWallStandingCirclesEmptinessDusk Book:Old Wine: A Novel Source: Old Wine: A Novel
“... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds out has a setting, often, of lights, streets, houses, human beings, beautiful or grotesque, which will weave itself into the moment for ever.” PeopleMindHumansMomentsLightBeautifulHouseSpeakChanceHuman BeingsStreetsConversationSettingSettingsImmortalityGrotesqueBeing Beautiful Book:Selected essays Source: Selected essays
“Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.” ThinkingWorldHumansDifferencesHuman BeingsPerfectStreetsExampleSourceNewspapersJournalismThoughtfulThinkerArtificialTypicalSuperficialMain Street Author:Gertrude Stein
“I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that but in the end I'm just a person. I really don't live like a rock star, economically or socially. I still live a pretty simple life beside the traveling aspect of it.” HumansPersonsStillsEndsPlayArtistStarsHuman BeingsSimpleStreetsRocksMomWalkingAspectGuitarElectricRock StarSimple LifeElectric Guitar Author:Patti Smith