#human

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#human-impact #industrial-revolution #death

Humankind made these religions; that our brains are capable of doing that is neither something to take too seriously — because we also make poop, and we learned to flush that the fuck down the toilet — but it's also not something to totally disregard. ↗

— Dan Harmon

#brains #humankind #religion #religions #religion

It is 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. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#beings #cannot #find #human #human beings

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#being #bird #free #human #human being

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history. ↗

— Avery Brooks

#being #compelled #feeling #history #human

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn. ↗

— Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud

#justice #must #spoken #turn

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ↗

— Dave Barry

#call #communication #development #history #human

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#everything #human #human thought #late #more

I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#altruism #am #become #earn #engaged

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#always #being #being human #consumed #desires