#human beings

I know that human beings are capable of anything. ↗

— Ben Okri

#beings #capable #human #human beings #i

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. ↗

— Ben Okri

#definition #description #fallen #fiction #human

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#any #awesome #beings #beliefs #create

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all. ↗

— Peter Singer

#because #before #beings #belief #better

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#been #beginning #beings #human #human beings

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs. ↗

— Marvin Harris

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In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#first #grew #home #human #human beings

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed. ↗

— David Simon

#americas #being #beings #cultural #day

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

#bringing #contribute #disaster #every #field

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

— Andre Malraux

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