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“The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.”

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“Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding.”

Human Blame Selfishness

Book:Release

Source: Release

“Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required a childhood period in which there was little or no pressure for conformity, a time in which the child could develop and pursue his or her own interests no matter how unusual or bizarre.”

Evolution Human Intelligence Polymaths Polymath

Book:The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Source: The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

“No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it is free, people will give their wealth to their children. But then it cannot be equal, for some people will inherit wealth they did not earn.”

Philosophy Human Ethics Sociology

Book:How the Mind Works

Source: How the Mind Works

“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.”

“The problem is this: nature has assembled all these species on this planet. The human species is no more important than any other species on this planet. For some reason, man accorded himself a superior place in this scheme of things. He thinks that he is created for some grander purpose than, if I could give a crude example, the mosquito that is sucking his blood. What is responsible for this is the value system that we have created. And the value system has come out of the religious thinking of man. Man has created religion because it gives him a cover. This demand to fulfill himself, to seek something out there was made imperative because of this self-consciousness in you which occurred somewhere along the line of the evolutionary process. Man separated himself from the totality of nature.”

Book:No Way Out: Dialogues with Krishnamurti

Source: No Way Out: Dialogues with Krishnamurti

“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.”

“When it comes to profit over safety, profit usually wins.”

Natural Human Safety Profit Chemicals Sanitation

Author:James Frazee

“We have this distinctly human concept of good and bad. Nature doesn't have that. It just is. I'm not comfortable with that. I'm not accepting of the fact that we live in a profoundly brutal world. I don't fully approve of the way nature works. This lifetime of study has left me disappointed by the brutality of it all. It has also made me more sympathetic to the human condition and the many unbearable circumstances we find ourselves in. You and I are lucky in this part of the world not to experience the sort of wretched life that is a reality for so many.”

World Nature Human Nature Human Animals

Author:Joe Hutto

“A bumper sticker from the 1970s read, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”

Humor Women Feminism Human Man

Book:How the Mind Works

Source: How the Mind Works

“Λαθράνθρωπος, οι = ἂνθρωπος/οι, που λαθραῖα συν~κατα~λέγονται στο εἲδος των ἀνθρῶπων ~ Lathranthrope, Lathranthropes = the person or persons that get smuggled into being included within the Human species neology by Ale3ia”