If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
My service to humanity is my real opportunity to prove my genuine love for God and God alone.
The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
Stories are a communal currency of humanity.
She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.
Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.
In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
I couldn't believe it. I had broken the law simply by not wearing clothes.
Without the friendship we'd never have discovered the reason we were friends.
If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.
It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.
