#beings

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#also #always #beings #close #common

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class. ↗

— Anne Perry

#based #beings #breeding #buy #class

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#affirm #beings #epistemology #into #linguistic

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#beings #feel #half #human #human beings

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

#human #human beings #large #possible #regarded

I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#american citizen #become #beings #citizen #country

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation. ↗

— Henry Reed

#creation #elements #human #human beings #interconnected

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. ↗

— Anne Rice

#answers #ask #beings #contrary #few

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#been #before #beings #each #faces

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#beings #brain #fated #force #happiness