humans

“We have in the Bible the first appeals in world literature to treat slaves as human beings for their own sake and not just in the interests of their masters.”

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to …

“The more we know about the ancients, the more we find that they were like the moderns.”

“To believe that people are basically good after Auschwitz, the Gulag and other horrors of our century, is a statement of irrational faith, as irrational as any fanatical religious belief. …

“Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.”

Hmmm….

“I can’t call them social networks anymore. I call them behavior modification empires.”

“In the U.S., abortion is the blood sacrifice we make on the altar to the goddess of unfettered sexual behavior.”   Topics Illustrated Include: Abortion Baby Behavior Heartbreak Humans Kill …

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.”

“Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the …