#humans

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#billions #exactly #how #human #humans

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#consider #humane #humans #inflicted #property

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#been #domesticated #history #horse #horses

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#beings #crave #feel #going #great

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth. ↗

— Gary Larson

#changed #comparable #demands #diversity #earth

I believe in humans. ↗

— John Malkovich

#humans #i #i believe #i believe in

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#clarke #doomed #evolution #humans #kubrick

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#benefit #could #general #general good #gods

Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#between #concern #conflict #holy #humans

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space. ↗

— Henry Reed

#beyond #dimension #humans #legacy #readings