one human being QUOTES

1 " HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are
four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and
praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain
whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for
advantage of the lawyers. "

― Ambrose Bierce , The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

2 " What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody. "

― Orson Scott Card , Shadow of the Hegemon (The Shadow Series, #2)

3 " ...[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage. "

― , Mrs. Miniver

4 " The fascination exerted by one human being over another is not what he emits of his personality at the present instant of encounter but a summation of his entire being which gives off this powerful drug capturing the fancy and attachment. "

― Anaïs Nin , The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel

5 " she had no stay, no root in herself yet. Well do I know not one human being ought, even were it possible, to be enough for himself; each of us needs God and every human soul he has made, before he has enough; but we ought each to be able, in the hope of what is one day to come, to endure for a time, not having enough. Letty was unblamable that she desired the comfort of humanity around her soul, but I am not sure that she was quite unblamable in not being fit to walk a few steps alone, or even to sit still and expect. […] and now her heart was like a child left alone in a great room. She had not yet learned that we must each bear his own burden, and so become able to bear each the burden of the other. Poor friends we are, if we are capable only of leaning, and able never to support. "

― George MacDonald , A Daughter's Devotion

6 " No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another. "

― Wendy McElroy

7 " As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted only when there is something prepared to paint it on, so carnal love is only legitimate, reasonable, and lasting when it is based on the respect and love of one human being for another. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Walk in the Light & Twenty-Three Tales

8 " The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality, and infringe on the integrity and individuality of their world. This is done in politics, in psychotherapy. "

― Philip K. Dick , Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

9 " Why one human being is attracted to another is one of the great mysteries of the world. "

― Claire Cook , Must Love Dogs (Must Love Dogs, #1)

10 " This advance (at first very much against the will of the outdistanced men) will transform the love experience, which is now filled with error, will change it from the ground up, and reshape it into a relationship that is meant to be between one human being and another, no longer one that flows from man to woman. And this more human love (which will fulfill itself with infinite consideration and gentleness, and kindness and clarity in binding and releasing) will resemble what we are now preparing painfully and with great struggle: the love that consists in this: that two solitudes protect and border and greet each other. "

― Rainer Maria Rilke , Letters to a Young Poet

11 " I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another it's a very deep matter. "