#hum

There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#detainees #founded #human #human rights #humane

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#human #invented #loneliness #music

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#coexistence #created #critical #critically #entity

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#capability #cuisine #fully #good #good things

You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#beings #doing #fighting #human #human beings

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting. ↗

— Fred Durst

#condition #eyes #find #guy #human

So here were the facts: I felt possessive of her. Not in a romantic sort of way, but in a "hit her over the head, drag her off by the hair, and fuck her" way. Like she was my toy and I was keeping the other boys in the sandbox from playing with her. How sick was that? If she ever heard me admit to that, she would cut off my balls and feed them to me. ↗

— Christina Lauren

#beauty

The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#finish #human #humans #important #important thing

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#bewilderment #characteristic #deep #human #humor

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. ↗

— Max Eastman

#humor #joke #make #proves #sense