#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

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#cosmos #first #generation #human #human beings

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. ↗

— Pythagoras

#continues #destroyer #each #health #kill

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#capacity #destructiveness #human #human beings #liberation

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

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#act #beings #determine #events #future

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#economic #fact #hold #human #human beings

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#economic #fact #hold #human #human beings

There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the fact that nonhuman animals are conscious beings, that they can suffer. ↗

— Peter Singer

#between #conscious #difference #doubt #fact