Top 1200 Fellow Human Beings Quotes & Sayings

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

I really believe that all of us, as Americans... we all need to be treated like fellow human beings.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and, if necessary, rework our conception of human importance, but also to ensure that our best conception is indeed the lens through which we look at our fellow human beings.

As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.

Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful.

I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.

The worst of Nature brings out the best in our fellow human beings.

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture.

You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

I think that as human beings, we quite naturally take for granted what is similar among human beings and, then, pay attention to what differentiates us. That makes perfect sense for us as human beings.

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

I'm an irredeemable urbanite. I can't imagine living more than a five-minute walk from my fellow human beings. Other people are vital to my peace of mind.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life.

To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment.

The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

A deep appreciation for politics comes from empathy for our fellow human beings and their diverse paths through life.

Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out to help them can be stunted or undermined early on, depending on a child's experiences in the home and neighborhood. It becomes too easy to turn our backs on fellow human beings... to have 'compassion fatigue.' Technology, we are learning, is not neutral.

For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or religion.

Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.

Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

I am inspired by honest people who don't cheat others. To me the famous are those who are kind to fellow human beings and dedicate their life to charity.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students have to be empowered to pursue self-knowledge and the skills that will help them be of service to their fellow human beings. Education should encourage people to develop their curiosity about life; above all, it should not trivialize either the students or their lives.

It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.

And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.