The 90’s map the decades to come – full of invisible technologies that will ‘sub-contract’ many of the functions of the central nervous system.
J.G. BallardTags: future humanity technology mankind
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
Susan SontagTags: humanity mankind mercy cruelty
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
Jonathan SwiftI do not love men: I love what devours them.
André GideTags: life writers mankind horror
Well in those parts (upcountry India) they have were-tigers, or think they have, and I must say that in this case, so far as sworn and uncontested evidence went, they had every ground for thinking so. However, as we gave up witchcraft prosecutions about three hundred years ago, we don’t like to have other people keeping on our discarded practices; it doesn’t seem respectful to our mental and moral position.
SakiTags: mankind witchcraft superstitions
A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!
Guy de MaupassantIn olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.
Vladimir OdoyevskySome actions are even baser than the people who commit them.
Machado de AssisThe atmosphere was electrified by the orgasm with which the strong and secure are overcome when confronted with the visible frailty of someone worse off than themselves.
Paul LeppinTags: humanity cynicism mankind
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
Bertolt BrechtTags: life wounds history humanity kiss mankind scars abuse
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