"Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'."

-- Adela Popescu

#Selfish Quotes #Animal Quotes #Intelligent Quotes

“I choose to stay present, to unlearn how to unlove, to love, and to practice my worthiness of it.”
“People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.”
“The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What I object to on the right is the obsessive hatred, the bigotry, and the personal savaging of their opponents, all achieved through an echo chamber of talk radio, the Internet and Rupert Murdoch's media outlets. That kind of well-funded disinformation campaign has no analog on the left.”
“there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year.”
“The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.”
“Religion turned some folks belligerent.”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.58, Penguin
“It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.”

Source : Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.11, Litres
“I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.”

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