#human beings

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

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#beings #conditioning #control #denial #forms

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

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ↗

— Miles Franklin

#fundamental #human #human beings #needs #someone

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

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. ↗

— Rollo May

#faster #habit #human #human beings #ironic

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#beings #better #conduct #help #human

When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them. ↗

— Jay Mohr

#else #endeavor #enjoying #golfers #human

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

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#beings #complex #complexity #human #human beings