#hum

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#affectionate #communication #insight

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#created #danger #did #efforts #half

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#destruction #endangered #further #human #human species

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#above #action #appeal #ask #bear

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? ↗

— Philip Roth

#human #human being #intelligent #large-scale #likely

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#character #expression #figure #human #interest

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#between #dakotans #done #human #i

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#freedom #history #human #human race #living

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#beings #enterprise #every #fellow #fellow human beings

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#body #born #carries #causes #destruction