#hum

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#being #citizen #destiny #half #hands

...I like the way Chee kept God magical, sorta like Santa Claus when you're a kid. More priests should take this approach, because there is a frickin' reason why Santa Claus is more popular than Jesus nowadays. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#religion #religion

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ↗

— George Arliss

#humility #life #minds #only #our

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#begins #factory #government #human #machine

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#bent #centuries #curb #developed #did

Human beings have always been mythmakers. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#been #beings #human #human beings

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#beings #both #enabling #extend #human

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#earth #i #out #planet #planet earth

Envy is human nature. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#human #human nature #nature

I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends. ↗

— James Arness

#became #before #being #california #friends