Quote by Jean Baudrillard
A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dun

A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth — either epileptic or dead. – Jean Baudrillard

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Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching. – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
Evolution
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The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy. – Jean Baudrillard

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Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void. – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Humanity

Man is an ape with possibilities. – Roy Chapman Andrews

Category:
Humanity

Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge. – William Blake

Category:
Humanity

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man–yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. – Marcus Antonius

Category:
Humanity

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God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Hang in There

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. – Adlai E. Stevenson

Category:
Age

If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Category:
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Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon. – Dave Sim

Category:
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