#human

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#become #civilization #danger #destruction #developments

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#belief #coherence #developing #eternity #growing

Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#body #cell #created #creating #dies

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#beings #diversity #exist #hell #human

We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#doing #human #human beings #little #our

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#changed #edge #experience #explains #how

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#american #american literature #baseball #biographies #condition

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#arrogant #beings #form #galaxy #human

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. ↗

— Anatole France

#act #fashion #human #human nature #nature

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#consider #humane #humans #inflicted #property