#human

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#benefit #community #every #fiction #good

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. ↗

— Angela Carter

#confidence #experience #female #human #human experience

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#concerns #excitement #frightened #genome #great

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#electricity #humanity #justice #love #me

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create. ↗

— Christo

#because #beings #bigger #build #create

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#did #hope #human #human beings #interested

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#especially #honest #humanity #i #i can

One can not be just if one is not humane. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#just

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment. ↗

— William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

#environment #human #human life #ignorance #life

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#beings #constant #human #human beings #i