#humans

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#baby #childe #cynic #cynicism #enemy

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship. ↗

— Chris Martin

#know #needing #possible #public #reason

I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#anyway #because #bird #body needs #cliff

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#critical #doing #humans #learn #life

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

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

By Hays' reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical times, is acceptable. Apparently human bodies were designed to be penetrated by metal implements, but not by flesh. ↗

— Hector Avalos

#bible #christianity #christianity-and-homosexuality #god #homophobia

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#affected #ants #humans #i #i think

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#colonizer #danger #fear #folly #humanity