#human being

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. ↗

— Claude McKay

#development #dwarfed #grow #human #human beings

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution. ↗

— Ivan Chermayeff

#beings #best #directed #executing #human

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#did #hope #human #human beings #interested

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#beings #each #how #human #human beings

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#brain #eighty #everything #face #face value

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#costumes #courage #day #every #every day

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#beings #birds #change #different #different place

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#along #beings #believe #better #come

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? ↗

— Norman Cousins

#being #destructive #every #fact #force

Sex is God's joke on human beings. ↗

— Bette Davis

#god #human #human beings #joke #sex