#human face

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me. ↗

— Martin Buber

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The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. ↗

— Eliza Farnham

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Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

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