#human

You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#murder #responsibility #men

I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#animals #humans #morals #parable #movies

...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering. ↗

— Adam Nevill

#nature

Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them. ↗

— Emil A. Zafirov

#evolution #god #human #religion #religion

If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#human-nature #motivation #time #time-management #writing

No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend! ↗

— Daniel J. Levitin

#humanity #music

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you. ↗

— Philip G. Zimbardo

#human-nature #psychology #nature

I am only human, although I regret it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#nature

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#nature

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#evil #human-nature #monsters #psychology #nature