#beings

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#beings #call #despise #force #hell

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect. ↗

— Robert Shea

#beings #both #combination #every #human

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#anything #assert #behold #beings #blind

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#accepted #against #beings #between #closest

A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering. ↗

— Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

#savages #suffering-life #art

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #ethical #francione #moral-imperative

I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there. ↗

— Martha Beck

#beings #believe #call #how #i

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#beings #broader #coherent #comprehensive #flexible

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#beings #better #closer #come #dare

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#beings #creative #great #heaven #indeed