#human beings

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#binds #common #compassion #future #hope

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. ↗

— Claude McKay

#development #dwarfed #grow #human #human beings

We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#beings #compassionate #giving #human #human beings

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#beings #books #burn #end #human

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#asses #being #beings #human #human being

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#behaving #beings #belief #death #doomed

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #either #hang #human #human beings

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #capacity #granted #human #human beings

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. ↗

— Dean Inge

#horse #human #human beings #saw #shapes