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Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have. -- Leigh Steinberg
Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being. -- Bjorn Ulvaeus
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. -- William Lloyd Garrison
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. -- William James
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. -- Jackie Robinson
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. -- Archibald MacLeish
My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people. -- Ziggy Marley
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. -- Albert Schweitzer
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. -- Jim Morrison
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be. -- Paulo Coelho
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. -- Jose Marti
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. -- Bruce Lee
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. -- Albert Schweitzer
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right. -- A. R. Rahman
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. -- Swami Vivekananda
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence. -- Eckhart Tolle
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. -- George S. Patton
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. -- Meister Eckhart
If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.' -- Stephane Hessel
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys. -- Queen Elizabeth II
There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. -- Nikola Tesla
When you're a girl, you have to be everything, You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice, and you have to - it's like, I can't be all of those things at once. I'm a human being. -- Nicki Minaj
Sometimes being human sucks. -- Melissa Marr
Being human is overrated. -- Mark Penn
I'm a multi-faceted human being. -- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
I'm obsessed with being human. -- Rachelle Lefevre
Every human being makes mistakes. -- Ian Smith
No human being is illegal. -- Elie Wiesel
I'm only a human being. -- Wayne Rooney
What constitutes the authentic human being? -- Philip K. Dick
There's no victory-condition for being human. -- Bruce Sterling
Any human being has private thoughts. -- Alan Dershowitz
And every human being is precious. -- Desmond Tutu
The perfect human being is uninteresting. -- Joseph Campbell
Merely being human is morally significant. -- Alice Crary
Hey, I'm a human being also. -- Shia LaBeouf
Every human being is a designer -- Norman Potter
Music is part of being human. -- Oliver Sacks
I am just one human being. -- Dalai Lama
I'm not a perfect human being. -- Katharine McPhee
Every human being is an artist -- Joseph Beuys
I'm not a bona fide human being. -- Phil Spector
Each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable. -- Rene Dubos
Being is seeing in the human dimension. -- Stephen Covey
Communal well-being is central to human life. -- Cat Stevens
No human being should wear tight satin. -- Michael Kors
I'm a human being before anything else. -- Freida Pinto
Here is a human being; it's me! -- Walter Gilbert
All human suffering concerns each human being -- Vaclav Havel
I'm pretty mutable as a human being. -- Erykah Badu
Touch is the meaning of being human. -- Andrea Dworkin
... every human being is an unprecedented miracle. -- James A. Baldwin
I describe myself as a human being. -- Jimmy Kimmel
I'm a human being. I'm not perfect. -- Jack Abramoff
I see God in every human being -- Mother Teresa
A human being is a deciding being. -- Viktor E. Frankl
A tourist is an ugly human being. -- Jamaica Kincaid
A human being can never be broken -- Hugh Herr
How can a human being be illegal? -- Elie Wiesel
I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being. -- A. J. Bowen
a normal human being ... does not exist. -- Karen Horney
From every human being there rises a light. -- Baal Shem Tov
Civilization itself is housed in the human being. -- Nayantara Sahgal
When did we stop being people, being human? -- Malorie Blackman
Every human being has an impact on another. -- Patch Adams
Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted. -- George Hamilton
Every human being has the potential for greatness. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Rather than being a human, be a humanitarian -- Kowtham Kumar K
Barack Obama is a very impressive human being. -- Jonathan Chait
You are awareness disguised as a human being. -- Oprah Winfrey
Stop being Jews and start being human beings. -- George Bernard Shaw
The greatest miracle of all, the human being. -- Marya Mannes
The human being is a skin-covered petrie dish. -- Bruce H. Lipton
Every human being is, by definition, a theologian. -- Russell D. Moore
The essence of being human is being creative. -- Joel Garreau
I'm a rapper but I'm a human being. -- Phife Dawg
Being a good human being is good business. -- Paul Hawken
You want your privacy as a human being. -- Peter Dinklage
I want to be a good human being. -- Jeremy Renner
I think of myself as a human being. -- Bruce Lee
Every human being is a work of art. -- Wolf Vostell
As a human being, I'm work in process. -- John Lydon
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. -- Andre Gide
Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless... -- Laozi
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral. -- Nadine Gordimer
A human being is a naturally political [animal]. -- Aristotle
That's what I miss, being a real human. -- M.I.A.
Without emotion, what's the point of being human? -- Marie Lu
Any photographed human being is always a photograph. -- Luigi Ghirri
A human being is only breath and shadow. -- Sophocles
The true artform is being a human being. -- Herbie Hancock
Being LGBT does not make you less human. -- Hillary Clinton
A human being is all hope and impatience. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish. -- T. D. Jakes
Nonviolence is absolute respect for each human being. -- Adolfo Perez Esquivel
My stepson is a caring, considerate, worthy human being. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value! -- Paddy Chayefsky
What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being. -- Bill Walton
Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being. -- Julia Alvarez
Every human being I know craves love and affection. -- Terry McMillan
Education is an organic necessity of a human being. -- Horace Mann
I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting. -- Al McGuire
The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Christianity is an entirely new way of being human. -- Maximus the Confessor
I believe that every human being has mental challenges. -- Sandra Bullock
I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being. -- Cass McCombs
Every human being in the human form has limitations. -- Eckhart Tolle
Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human. -- Jacquelyn Mitchard
Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock. -- Mike Huckabee
Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody. -- Lou Reed
The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right. -- Matthew Kelly
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. -- Simone Weil
I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being. -- Ringo Starr
Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you? -- Russell Lynes
Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being. -- Elvis Costello
Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy. -- Desmond Tutu

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