#human being

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#being #body #claim #enter #her

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. ↗

— Barack Obama

#beings #common #competition #dignity #exclusive

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#beings #courts #culture #ground #high

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#basically #being #character #characters #come

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#behaving #behavior #beings #complexity #environment

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

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#central #even #human #human beings #important

Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#breeze #continues #hearts #human #human beings

Fiction's about what it is to be a human being. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#being #fiction #human #human being

I'm pretty actively involved with the military because I think they're incredible human beings. If I can give back to them for what they're doing for us, it's a good thing. And I think to have happy soldiers, you need to feed them well. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#actively #back #because #beings #doing