A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
Gloria SteinemTags: equality men women humanity feminism
The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.
A.S. ByattTags: wisdom knowledge humanity
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Victor HugoTo me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."
[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]
Tags: life civic-duty civic-responsibility history humanity mankind responsibility
If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
David GemmellWhat makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. Next question.
Michael CrichtonShe has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.
Caleb CarrWe are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anaïs NinTags: humanity
Humans see what they want to see.
Rick RiordanTags: perception humanity willful-ignorance mankind humans self-delusion
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