They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
Stephen KingTag: life animals humanity humanity-and-society
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To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.
Gary SteinerTag: morality humanity ethics speciesism
I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.
Paulo CoelhoOnce someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
Paulo CoelhoTag: life humanity philosophy death
No matter what is happening in the world, I continue to believe in humanity. The power of positive thinking is always enough.
Britt SkrabanekTag: inspirational world humanity culture positivity positive-thinking
People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: morality humanity human-nature breeding domesticating
...between human beings there are only two alternatives, either brotherhood or crime.
Saul BellowTag: humanity
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.
The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
Tag: life inspirational humanity religion afterlife gratitude
Your friend Mikey knew what my touch could do, but he didn’t tell me. He turned me into a murderer. Worse than a murderer.”
“I think,” said Nick, “they call that manslaughter or wrongful death, don’t they? I mean, when it’s an accident or out of ignorance, or something.”
Clarence turned to Nick, studying him with his Everlost eye. “You’re a lot smarter than you were back in the cage,” Clarence said. “You look better too. Back then you were a thing, now you’re almost a person.”
“Thanks . . . but ‘almost’ is still ‘almost.’”
“Yeah, well, we’re all almost something.
Tag: humanity
At first first nothing will happen to us
and later on
it will happen to us again.
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