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#human

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But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.


Suzanne Collins


#humanity #public-opinion #games

Uncouth, clannish, lumbering about the confines of Space and Time with a puzzled expression on his face and a handful of things scavenged on the way from gutters, interglacial littorals, sacked settlements and broken relationships, the Earth-human has no use for thinking except in the service of acquisition. He stands at every gate with one hand held out and the other behind his back, inventing reasons why he should be let in. From the first bunch of bananas, his every sluggish fit or dull fleabite of mental activity has prompted more, more; and his time has been spent for thousands of years in the construction and sophistication of systems of ideas that will enable him to excuse, rationalize, and moralize the grasping hand. His dreams, those priceless comic visions he has of himself as a being with concerns beyond the material, are no more than furtive cannibals stumbling round in an uncomfortable murk of emotion, trying to eat each other. Politics, religion, ideology — desperate, edgy attempts to shift the onus of responsibility for his own actions: abdications. His hands have the largest neural representation in the somesthetic cortex, his head the smallest; but he's always trying to hide the one behind the other.


M. John Harrison


#greed #human-nature #thought #dreams

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#kindness #politics-observation #observation

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.


Paulo Coelho


#human-nature #nature

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.


Veronica Roth


#nature

There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink.


Clay Griffith


#mind-thoughts #secrecy #nature

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.


Ken Follett


#human-nature #sheep #nature

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.


Emma Donoghue


#nature

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.


Isaac Asimov


#nature

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.


Mark Twain


#killing #nature






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