#bio

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#condition #culture #human #human culture #man

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#back #biologists #capacity #collective #evolutionary

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.' ↗

— Brian Eno

#action #agenda #course #devious #discussion

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#history #insisted #intersection #mills #proper

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#basic #biological #challenge #earth #ecosystem

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#american #american literature #baseball #biographies #condition

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#autobiographical #myself #purely #surroundings #work

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#biologically #creates #fixed #given #human

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#biography #death #like #off #own

The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#balanced #biological #climate #cycles #diversity