#human

For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#humanity #machines #monkeys #reflection #thought

But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humanity #men

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography. ↗

— Alan Moore

#mankind #men #men

Maybe, it is easier to forget the past, than to overcome the pain caused by it. Maybe, it is one of some other reasons, why men forget their prehuman ancestor. ↗

— Toba Beta

#forget-the-past #pain #prehuman #truth #men

Why do women get more hurt than men? Because men use their brain whereas women use their heart to make a decision. ↗

— Cynthia Rusli

#happiness #human #smile #men

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#humor #humour #language #seriousness #men

I am the keeper of the beast, though all men harbor a beast in the depths of their heart -- callous, calamitous creatures, driven by deviant demands and derisive diligence. -- From the short story What Rough Beast ↗

— Michael Hibbard

#men #philosophy #men

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies. ↗

— Grant Morrison

#comics #exploration #humanity #war #money

And the reason Luke is thinking about time and free will is because he believes that money is the closest human beings have ever come to crystallizing time and free will into a compact physical form. Cash. Cash is a time crystal. Cash allows you to multiply your will, and it allows you to speed up time. Cash is what defines us as a species. Nothing else in the universe has money. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#money #time #money

Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change. ↗

— David Gemmell

#humanity #change