“He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.” HumansCharacterHuman BeingsAttentionFailureTerribleHappeningsPaidFinestTerrible ThingsSalesman Author:Arthur Miller
“Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.” ThinkingHumansIssuesSeriousHappeningsClimateEnvironmentalClimate ChangeEnvironmental IssuesSerious IssuesChanging Environment Author:Bill Nye
“A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.” HumansSelfFacesChanceHuman BeingsRaceSilenceHappeningsPressureInjusticeCriticalRejectsFacultyRatsCautionPromotionAdvancementBluntInsidiousRat RaceSelf Promotion Author:Jimmy Reid
“Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.” FeelsHumansPersonsMadeSidesHuman BeingsHappeningsOneselfOppressionCrushOppressedCrushed Book:Lectures on Philosophy Source: Lectures on Philosophy
“For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.” HumansComedyMinutesConditionsRight NowHappeningsNewspapersReportsHuman ConditionDay To Day Author:Elayne Boosler
“I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsHumansHuman BeingsEmotionClearBloodHairHappeningsSkinsGreedFleshHorribleCharacteristicsMaskSanitySlipsDisgustingVergePsychoFrenzyBloodlust Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.” MindHumansLyingHuman BeingsAnimalHappeningsDenialLied Author:Cesar Millan
“There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because we’re reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansImportantIdeasTodayReadingImaginationLordFantasyEternalNewsHappeningsTestsRingsTouchingImaginativeArchetypeHuman ImaginationTest Of Time Author:Clive Barker
“i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any--lifted from the no of all nothing--human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)” ShouldHumansDreamEyeTodayEarthSpiritNaturalSunDoubtAliveSeeingTreeSkyBirthGayHappeningsEarsDiedInfiniteBlueWingsHearingBreathingAwakeTouchingUnimaginableTastingThank You GodTrue DreamsAmazing Day Book:AnOther E.E. Cummings Source: AnOther E.E. Cummings
“This can’t be happening. It’s just not possible. (Cassandra) Oh, well, let’s not have reality intrude now, shall we? I mean, hey, you’re a mythological being descended from mythological beings and you’re in the house of an immortal guardian no human can remember five minutes after they leave his presence. Who’s to say that you can’t get pregnant in a dream by him? What? We’re jumping into the realm of reality now? (Katra)” HumansWellsMeanDreamRealityRememberHouseFiveMinutesHappeningsHeyRealmsImmortalPregnantJumpingFive MinutesGuardianHey YouOh Well Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon