#humanity

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#could #creative #death #discourage #ever

Money is the honey of humanity. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#money #money

[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men. ↗

— Herman Melville

#beasts #human-condition #humanity #men #men

Religion- made by men to rule women, children and idiots! ↗

— Vardan Hambardzumyan

#humanity #idiots #men #religion #women

Look, we are getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems... Don't you think it's time to recognise that there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine? ↗

— John le Carré

#logical-thinking #men

Call me not wise unless you call all men wise. A young fruit am I, still clinging to the branch and it was only yesterday that I was a blossom. And call none among you foolish for we are neither wise nor foolish. We are green leaves upon the tree of life and surely life itself if beyond wisdom and surely beyond foolishness. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#humanity-and-society #wisdom #men

If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility. ↗

— Niall Ferguson

#humanity #man #money #money

You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#murder #responsibility #men

No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend! ↗

— Daniel J. Levitin

#humanity #music

Poets sing our human music for us. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#poet-laureate #poetry #poets #song #music