#human being

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#apostles #beings #claimed #explanation #havoc

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#central #century #condition #doubt #human

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#beings #believe #believes #biological #classification

Mr. Speaker, the goal of stem cell research should be to help our fellow human beings. The debate on this issue has, unfortunately, moved into dangerous unethical territory when perfectly moral alternatives exist. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#beings #cell #cell research #dangerous #debate

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#alone #become #beings #expression #human

What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman, because they're going to run your life. ↗

— Michael Schiavo

#being #better #call #congressman #everybody

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body. ↗

— Klaus Schulze

#body #dance #dance music #dancing #every

Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy. ↗

— Jill Scott

#beings #characters #creative #def #different

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#children #human #human beings #mothers #sometimes

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#aware #being #death #did #die