Humanity Quotes - Page 19

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

If humans had nothing to fight for, they would fight for nothing.

Humans seem to have an innate drive to master other creatures.

There seems to be no way to save wildness from human intrusion without establishing and enforcing rules and regulations that are themselves intrusions on what, by definition, are meant to be areas outside humanity's control.

The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.

the world is better without
them.

only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.

I drink to them and with
them.

I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very hungry human was capable of stealing food from its little ones while an animal, perhaps, was not.

There is something deeply awe-inspiring about the sight of any living creatures in incomputable numbers; it stirs, perhaps, some atavistic chord whose note belongs more properly to the distant days when we were a true part of the animal ecology; when the sight of another species in unthinkable hosts brought fears or hopes no longer applicable.

We have long laboured under an obtuse presupposition that the senses by which other living creatures perceive their world must to a great extent resemble our own; but in fact we are, by scientific invention, only now beginning to approach methods of perception that the whales have always owned as their birthright.

Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. He adapts himself to the laws of nature or he perishes.

How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market" put a price on things - food, clothes, electricity, running water - when it doesn't take into account the REAL cost of production?

As I read the Qur’an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness.

People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.

My surname for a mask to pretend!
I have no stand to protest,
but I will find it" (in the poem 'Tatiana Naturova at Time's End' in the collection 'The Green Divorce')

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

She couldn't live in denial of her own humanity.

I'm human. Isn't it obvious?

I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life’s many mysteries. It is a genre that can tell an entertaining and enthralling story on the surface, and yet deliver a potent message underneath, where everything becomes a symbol of something greater.