#mans

If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of particular humans. If we speak of the history of the species at all, it is only to signify the unknowable sum of these lives. As with other animals, some lives are happy, others wretched. None has a meaning that lies beyond itself. ↗

— John Gray

#humanity #humans #life #man #straw-dogs

Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up. The Earth will forget mankind. The play of life will go on. ↗

— John Gray

#extinction #humans #the-coast-opposite-of-humanity #unsaved #life

I love Humanity but I hate humans ↗

— Albert Einstein

#humanity #humans #people #love

We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us. ↗

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#humans #jeffery #masson #love

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. ↗

— Alice Walker

#black #created #exist #humans #made

Nine men in ten are suicides. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#men

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography. ↗

— Alan Moore

#mankind #men #men

You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#fellow-humans #men

The earth is another form of hell, and men are its demons. ↗