#human being

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#alone #beings #human #human beings #like

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#beings #human #human beings #interested #reality

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. ↗

— Levi Strauss

#beings #carry #centuries #evidence #happened

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#before #beings #chance #discovering #ever

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#ballots #been #being #county #human

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#among #beings #call #concealment #convinced

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being. ↗

— Don Johnson

#being #human #human being #i #i am

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#any #being #burning #conscience #death

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#being #classed #even #first #fought

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#broke #bucket #buy #catastrophes #go