#humanit

My surname for a mask to pretend! I have no stand to protest, but I will find it" (in the poem 'Tatiana Naturova at Time's End' in the collection 'The Green Divorce') ↗

— Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis

#humanity #nature #nature

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette. ↗

— Emily Post

#humanity-and-society #relationships #relationship

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#action

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#humanity #character

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#earth #humanity #outer-space #universe #trouble

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#people #psychology #sanity #logic

Human reason can excuse any evil. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#evil #humanity #reasoning #evil

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#good-and-evil #humanity #native-americans #self-determination #fighting

She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation. ↗

— L.A. Weatherly

#conversation

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#feminism #humanity #men #women #equality