#humans

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#clock #does #ever #humans #nobody

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#abstract #concrete #evil #humans #make

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#ageism #basic #being #community #deny

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#because #government #humans #nature #need

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime. ↗

— Buzz Aldrin

#humans #i #i think #lifetime #like

Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is furrowed, wrinkled, sagging, ravaged by time. But the eyes are bright and, if not young, then somehow transcend the time that otherwise marks the face. It is as though someone else is looking at us, from somewhere inside the face, where everything is different. One can hardly be closer to another human soul. ↗

— Karl Ove Knausgård

#eyes #humans #life #old-age #perception

Looking down from my throne full of thorns, I glanced at the people on Earth. Oh, man. I despised them. It wasn’t like they were becoming better humans or anything, Devil forbid. In fact, they all roasted in their sin, mayonnaised in their stupidity, tomato-sauced in their envy and anger toward each other.... ↗

— Cameron Jace

#evil #hatred #humans #anger

Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human. ↗

— Jonathan Smith

#humans #art

Give humanity a truly unlimited field, and it would fill it with Happy Meal toys and holographic sports-star, collectible trading card game art. ↗

— Charles Stross Cory Doctorow

#art

God didn't create the fear, fear created the God. God didn't create humans, Humans created the God because of their fear. ↗

— John Art

#god #humans #art