#humans

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals. ↗

— Keith Henson

#competitive #competitive advantage #factor #generation #gives

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ↗

— James Herriot

#being #better #better off #feel #gratitude

Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because all sane people can see it with their own eyes. Not so for the belief that babies are born with original sin or that God exists in three persons or that Ali is the second-most divinely inspired man after Muhammad. When people organize their lives around these beliefs, and then learn of other people who seem to be doing just fine without them--or worse, who credibly rebut them--they are in danger of looking like fools. Since one cannot defend a belief based on faith by persuading skeptics it is true, the faithful are apt to react to unbelief with rage, and may try to eliminate that affront to everything that makes their lives meaningful. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#humans #thought-provoking #violence #faith

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#humans #love #more #most #pets

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#balance #established #fragile #human #humans

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#creatures #earth #end #fact #humans

It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons. ↗

— Allen West

#humans #liberal #philosophy #selfish #views

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#artists #coming #dark #go #humans

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#handful #humans #just #out #troublemakers

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment. ↗

— Gale Norton

#environment #environmentalism #figure #greatest #greatest challenge