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Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. – Hannah Arendt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Chester Pullman is simply one of the most generous human beings I've ever had the pleasure of meeting in my life. To me, he is an American treasure! – Contessa Bianca Bertolli	added by anonymous 10 years ago
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life. – Malcolm Muggeridge	added by anonymous 10 years ago
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. – Malcolm Muggeridge	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do. – Ernest Hemingway	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another – Thomas Merton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. – John Stuart Mill	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals. – Václav Havel	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature. – Octavio Paz	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation. – Anthon St Maarten	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Meditation is the natural weapon in LIFE for HUMAN BEINGS... – Ravichandra	added by Sun Moon 10 years ago
The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings. – Bryant McGill	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The pure in heart, who fear to sin, The good, kindly in word and deed? These are the beings in the world Whose nature should be called divine. – Buddhist	added by anonymous 12 years ago
If hell uses highly refined uranium and completely pure hydrogen to stoke its fires, the roaring furnaces there will still be too cold for these depraved beings. (Speaking about the leaders of North Korea...) read about it here: http://standfortheright.com/archives/540 – Dan Flikweert	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws. – Isaac Asimov	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species. – Doctor Who	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A wizard cannot do everything; a fact most magicians are reticent to admit, let alone discuss with prospective clients. Still, the fact remains that there are certain objects, and people, that are, for one reason or another, completely immune to any direct magical spell. It is for this group of beings that the magician learns the subtleties of using indirect spells. It also does no harm, in dealing with these matters, to carry a large club near your person at all times. – The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VIII	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash. – Sigmund Freud	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. – Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. – Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash. – Sigmund Freud	added by anonymous 13 years ago
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time. – George Orwell	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health

A pecuniary

B inexpiable

C valetudinarian

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