#human

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#balance #being #brave #crucial #enough

It made Daniel think. The people who had the least were the most willing to share. He outlined a dictum that he would believe the rest of his life: the more people have, the less the give. Similarly, generous cultures produce less waste because excess is shared, whereas stingy nations fill their landfills with leftovers. ↗

— Mark Sundeen

#compassion #humanity-and-society #money #life

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity. ↗

— Justin Sane

#capacity #each #human #human beings #important

It is assured that men of all ages imagine a woman naked when they first meet. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#male-and-female #male-thinking #maleness #men #men-and-women

Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#human-nature #madness #mind #passion #soul

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#continue #electronic #frame #human #human brain

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#human #human beings #live #only #retrace

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#care #god #human #i #i care

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#based #because #doomed #failure #feminism

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ideology #people #political-revolutionary #revolution #revolutionary-movement