#human beings

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#called #collateral #damage #destruction #happens

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. ↗

— Simone Weil

#cannot #crushed #crushing #feel #feels

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#beings #color #human #human beings #i

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#beings #beneath #better #hope #human

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#beings #eat #human #human beings #nutrients

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#exactly #faults #human #human beings #members

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it. ↗

— Carl Barks

#been #beings #caricature #describes #ducks

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. ↗

— Michael Ende

#beings #beliefs #better #comes #controlling

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#again #alive #always #beings #college

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#age #beings #continue #day #human