Humans Quote by Eileen Wilks Download Open image “Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.” — Eileen Wilks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Nature of man Peculiar Turns Violent
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The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
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Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell. — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn’t paying attention, — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner. — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
“There is no place on you I can’t love, and love grants me entry . . .” — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
“Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind.” — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
“He wanted slow. He wanted lingering and teasing, and she was not in a patient mood. As with so much in a relationship, compromise… — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
“Regrets are the most useless form of guilt," Cullen said. "They always arrive too late to do any good.” — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
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Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
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Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
