Source: Inferno
“writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.”
“Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 67e
“Sociobiology reduces the human to the animal instead of observing how the animal becomes human.”
How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science (2007)
Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/86920.Buchi_Emecheta.
1980s
Context: If you are not at all concerned with the world but only with your personal salvation, following certain beliefs and superstitions, following gurus, then I am afraid it will be impossible for you and the speaker to communicate with each other. …We are not concerned at all with private personal salvation but we are concerned, earnestly, seriously, with what the human mind has become, what humanity is facing. We are concerned as human beings, human beings who are not labelled with any nationality. We are concerned at looking at this world and what a human being living in this world has to do, what is his role?
“More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
"Animal Liberation Is Human Liberation", in OpEdNews.com (11 December 2007) http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mark_haw_071211_animal_liberation_is.htm
Bruce Friedrich on Protein Alternatives and the Good Food Institute https://hearthisidea.com/episodes/bruce, Interview on the Hear This Idea podcast, 2021
“Before being humans, we are animals.”
Source: Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001), p. 26 (also on p. 4)
