#human

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour. ↗

— Marvin Harris

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There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#beings #competing #conditions #following #human

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#human #increasing #longer #more #poverty

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#honest #human #human relationships #i #i think

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#feet #find #force #god #however

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#effort #history #human #human effort #language

Beware how you take away hope from another human being. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#another #away #being #beware #how

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#being #equal #ever #given #his

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#attention #back #done #family #given

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. ↗

— Albert Camus

#man #mankind #philosophy #nature