#hum

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#atheist #been #believe #both #church

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#been #brutal #century #human #human rights

We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience. ↗

— John Portman

#better #create #environment #experience #humanity

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#almost #another #because #countenance #elements

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#child #human #knowledge #lose #must

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis. ↗

— Priscilla Presley

#caring #course #elvis #endearing #full

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree. ↗

— James Douglas

#borne #human #i #like #living

The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#behind #bodies #dead #even #every

The human voice cannot mount up into these boundless solitudes. ↗

— Alberto Santos Dumont

#cannot #human #human voice #into #mount

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#barriers #constraints #erect #except #human