#human

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot. ↗

— Judah Philip Benjamin

#effort #fire #gardener #human #human effort

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#captures #humankind #language #past

For every expert that says humans are the cause of "climate change" there are 10 more who say we aren't. ↗

— Bradley A. Blakeman

#change #climate #climate change #every #expert

The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair. ↗

— Connie Willis

#human-experience #experience

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#justice #laws #only #original #over

My approach is a very human one, as a fan. ↗

— Lisa Guerrero

#fan #human #very

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. ↗

— John Comenius

#consideration #end #humanity #language #let us

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#american #constitution #ever #greatest #human

What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it? ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#beings #changes #human #human beings #into

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.' ↗

— Laura Riding

#am #conscious #go #human #human nature