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“So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.”

Men Humans Law Night Human Beings Animal Break Dangerous Instinct Destructive Lions Primitive Bulls Herds Nuisance Fetch Primitive Man Law Breakers

Author:Carl Jung

“Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.”

Years Mind Humans Has Beens Lasts Human Beings Break Technology Historical Bounds Scales Homo Sapiens

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.”

Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

“Living in a rural town really compelled me to start tweeting so much. Mostly, my Twitter usage is fueled by loneliness. I can go days without talking to another human being unless it's my mother, especially when I'm not teaching or on break.”

Humans I Can Mother Human Beings Talking Break Teaching Loneliness Towns Compelled Usage

Author:Roxane Gay

“Everybody takes breaks, and I decided to take mine. I wanted a chance to wake up at two in the afternoon and not be a subject of entertainment. I wanted to be a human being. At certain times and certain years, I felt like the Energizer bunny. That gets old very quickly.”

Years Humans Two Wanted Certain Felt Chance Human Beings Break Subjects Mines Decided Wake Up Entertainment Afternoon Bunnies

Author:Raven-Symone

“Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.”

World Humans Wells May Humanity Human Beings Break Greed Spread Ignorant Superiors Cruelty Confused Dictatorship Enslavement Weaponry Inarticulate

Book:We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

Source: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

“If someone had said to me before I started doing this that a human being is capable of running 100 miles nonstop, I would have just said: 'No way. I mean, how?' If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.”

Ifs Way Humans Mean Said Self Running Term Human Beings Break Capable Miles Limitation Barriers Breaking Down

Author:Dean Karnazes

“In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.”

Humans Human Beings Break Solitude Fellows

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.”

Knows Humans Human Beings Break Broken Labor Strikes Breaking Down Components Labor Movement

Author:Mary Heaton Vorse

“I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill. I have never been so hungry that I willed hunger. I have never been so angry as to want to control a gun over a pen. Not really. Even as a woman, as a Palestinian, as a broken human being. Never this broken.”

Knows Want Humans Order Human Beings Break Know How Broken Gun Angry Hunger Hungry Pens Palestinian

Author:Suheir Hammad

“I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.”

Ifs Knows Believe Humans Heart Reason Enough Happens Past Life Is I Believe Human Beings Break Negative Over It Our Past Your Past Heart Break

Author:Bipasha Basu