#hum

I'm a humanist. ↗

— Lou Reed

#i

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. ↗

— Charles W. Chesnutt

#divine #heart #human #human heart #image

Communism is in conflict with human nature. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#conflict #human #human nature #nature

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#aid #always #american #american people #being

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed. ↗

— Jeffrey Combs

#close #flies #get #human #human psyche

A melody is not merely something you can hum. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#melody #merely #something #you

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#country #his #humanity #most #pacifist

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#anyone #armed #humor #me #need

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. ↗

— Guy Debord

#become #circulation #considered #consumption #fundamentally

It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim ↗

— Jason Najum

#culture-critique #essay #humor #inspirational #memoir