Humans Quotes by Margaret Atwood

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good…

— Margaret Atwood

“I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this…

— Margaret Atwood

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of…

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Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

— Margaret Atwood

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

— Margaret Atwood

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to…

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You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

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Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

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As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at…

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The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other…

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The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear…

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When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning,…

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Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and…

— Margaret Atwood

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the…

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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and…

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The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages…

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We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as…

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We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn’t a human being. But if you are a lover…

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Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate…

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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill…

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There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not…

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Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates…

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Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might…

— Margaret Atwood

“Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated…

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“Walking was not fast enough so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so…

— Margaret Atwood

“The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male…

— Margaret Atwood

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

— Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though…

— Margaret Atwood

Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness…

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Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we…

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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as…

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Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they…

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Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so…

— Margaret Atwood

When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my…

— Margaret Atwood

He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or…

— Margaret Atwood