#human

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence. ↗

— Peter Davison

#because #embarrassed #existence #extraordinarily #friends

What sets our species apart is not just what men will do to other men, but how tirelessly they justify it. ↗

— William Dietrich

#men

Women are people too". ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#humanity-and-society #women-and-men #men

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her. ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#humanity #men

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#nature

I feel it respectful to observe and practice new customs, if I am to ever understand what it truly means to be human. ↗

— Jacob D. Lochner

#inspirational #inspirational

You really think the world will ever know peace? Is that how you see the world" Malacey asked softly "That's how the world can be seen" his friend replied with a smile. ↗

— Obengbia Leyony

#humanity #inspirational #love #peace #war

One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying. ↗

— Robert Buettner

#humanity #humanity-complexity #lying #change

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#carlyle #change #christian #comparison #direction

Be the slaughterhouse for sacred cows. ↗

— Cassandra Duffy

#humanism #iconoclast #inspirational #inspirational