#human

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#adult #apparently #cherish #conflicting #constantly

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out. ↗

— Billy Graham

#becomes #church #destroy #hours #human

Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#both #foundation #human #me #need

I'd rather be a cyborg than a goddess. ↗

— Hye Yeon Nam

#cyborg #haraway #post-human #art

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#civilization #guided #human #instinct #longer

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of "others" and "our" problems are being increasingly erased. ↗

— Janez Drnovsek

#being #between #boundaries #crucially #erased

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. ↗

— David Duchovny

#celebrities #celebrity #country #death #human

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#human #human wisdom #summed #two #up

When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives",and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it. ↗

— George Orwell

#freedom

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#compares #extinction #human #human race #interconnected