#human

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#along #beings #believe #better #come

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#billions #exactly #how #human #humans

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? ↗

— Norman Cousins

#being #destructive #every #fact #force

Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult. ↗

— Catherine Crier

#always #any #anything #become #beings

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#commerce #failure #humanity #me #often

the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance ↗

— Helen Rowland

#mistakes-humanity #life

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#how #human #interaction #just #kids

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#acquiring #humanity #reasons #right #wrong

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same. ↗

— Aberjhani

#color #diversity #ethnic-cultures #ethnic-groups #ethnicity

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#being #believes #complexity #deal #father