#beings

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#called #collateral #damage #destruction #happens

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity. ↗

— Justin Sane

#capacity #each #human #human beings #important

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#human #human beings #live #only #retrace

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#ethics #evolution #first #first step #human

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. ↗

— Simone Weil

#cannot #crushed #crushing #feel #feels

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#background #confidence #cultivation #development #enlightenment

A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#life #love #need #life

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ability #almost #also #apparent #beings

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#leads #our #poetry #rational #refreshed

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#beings #bullet #comes #designed #evil