Human Beings

Famous quotes containing the words human beings, human and/or beings:

    Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
    Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes.... It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)