#hum

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#culture #cultures #destroy #force #fragile

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#ancient rome #confident #continual #expansion #human

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#aspects #bankers #cannot #concerned #culture

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#conscience #cultures #exploitation #human #yet

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information. ↗

— John Erskine

#exercise #helps #human #information #make

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse. ↗

— Ralph Erskine

#buildings #ease #human #human relations #improve

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#daunting #effect #everything #her #him

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#also #battles #between #conflict #deeply

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#cigarettes #habit #human #human behaviour #part

At some point we have to be able to say, “I have no idea what is going on.” Hmmmmmmmm. I wonder if that’s the whole trip, so that we can actually know what’s going on. Hmmmmmmmm. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art