#hum

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#combined #complete #determinism #hard #human

It's only one date. I can do it. And you'll probably lose interest afterward." "No other woman's ever needed to give herself a pep talk to spend time with me." "That you know of. ↗

— Ann Bruce

#dating

Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#humor

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life. ↗

— Kay Granger

#definition #dusk #entitled #few #granted

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#change #day #docile #humble #kind

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#church #does #exercise #exist #govern

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#humanity #leads #line #straight #straight line

Oh my gods. The alpha of Clan Cat just got smacked with a rolled-up newspaper. "Mom! ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#dreams

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#any #ever #human #human activity #importance

Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end. ↗

— Hun Sen

#country #democracy #end #existing #freedom