“Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.”

“a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.”

“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”

“Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.”

“I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.”

“The classic rationalists did not consider the members of an organization as human beings, but just as cogs in the machine. For them, workers were only hands. The human relations approach has shown how incomplete this rationale was. It has also made it possible to consider workers as creatures of feeling, who are moved by the impact of the so-called rational decisions taken above then, and will react to them. A human being, however, does not have only a hand a heart. He also had a head, which means that he is free to play his own game.”

“The thing was not discussable, even with a near acquaintance like Calvin because … because of the nature of the thing … because one had to behave like a normal, unworried human being. That at least was sound and clear and gave him comfort: behave like a normal human being.”

“The worker in a capitalist state — and that is his deepest misfortune — is no longer a living human being, a creator, a maker.”

“Not that he was jealous of the machine—but it was reassuring to know that there was still something that human beings could do that machines could not master.
Love.”

“Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.”