#hum

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. ↗

— Edward Bond

#being #greeks #human #human being #meant

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#dignity #human #human dignity #terrorism

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars. ↗

— Giotto di Bondone

#frail #heart #human #human heart #reach

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#aiming #been #commodity #democracy #focus

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#humility #make #right #self

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#been #farmers #fighting #food #front

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#advanced #america #belief #believed #differentiation

What would it be like to exist in a world without suffering? To have no needs, only desires? To be surrounded by so much beauty that you forget how ugly life is for everyone else? Who wouldn’t want that? Who wouldn’t be willing to fight for it? What the alumni did to get there – lie, cheat, steal, kill – I’m sure they’d all say it was worth it. And I bet they sleep soundly because they know that their nameless, faceless victims would have done the same thing. ↗

— Kirsten Miller

#realistic #beauty

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#errors #humanity #inheritance #leaves #stream

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#best #finding #i #i think #next