#human

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#armies #behave #being #chooses #dirty

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#bed #eats #evil #human #our

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#between #cat #conception #difference #dog

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#celebrity #human #human being #i #i can

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer. ↗

— Joan Baez

#first #folk #folk singer #human #human being

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#death #death penalty #humans #penalty #should

Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#always #being #byrne #extraordinary #friends

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. ↗

— David Ormsby Gore

#nature

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#best #day #deserve #every #every day

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#history #human #human race #misfortunes #nothing