Quotes of: Human-animal Keyword

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

Jeannette Rankin

One of the most curious aspects of human psychology is an omnipresent and persistent habit to seek information from the worst possible sources. When seeking relationship advice, humans speak to their single friends instead of happy couples who have b...

Kharmic Rebound

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. Anyone who claims, on the one hand, that he is concerned with human welfar...

Atheism: The Case Against God

Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from ph...

The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader... This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specificall...

The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of their ancestors. Humans are the most advanced of mammals – although a case could be made for the dolphins – because they seldom grow up. Behavioral tr...

Still Life with Woodpecker

In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young coup...

Three to Get Married

One of the dangers of the spiritual story is that it disassociates humans from reality. Relieving world hunger, crime and suffering are replaced with fantasies of other worlds, dimensions, gods or forces that will magically take care of humanities pl...

Unspirituality: Permission to Be Human

I remember sitting in the Beth Shalom synagogue in Cambridge on the night of Kol Nidre. Peter Lipton, a friend and an atheist philosopher, was giving a sermon on the theme of “atonement:” “If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehum...

Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty

When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role. It was to foster and protect the kind of values for which a philistine social order had precious little ti...

Terry Eagleton

The irony of the present day is, that, the more human rights jurisprudence seems to be fortified, the more there are human rights violations in newer and newer forms and some recidivism all due to the conflicting deductions of protecting even human r...

Henrietta Newton Martin

Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of human hands and especially out of the human heart and put it through a machine, we have mad...

Ashley Montagu

If you fear God, you won't fear humans.

Albanian

The winds of heaven change suddenly; so do human fortunes.

Chinese

Toys? When a man—a dom—said toys, he didn’t mean stuffed animals or baseballs.

To Command and Collar

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals

Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.

Gone, Baby, Gone

We are all born with a muscle for courage, but our education has wasted it away.

The Happiness Animal

They said the shape-shifters fucked with the enthusiasm of animals—if they didn't devour you with the enthusiasm of one first.

Black Beast

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Jacob Bronowski

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

Erik Satie