#human

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#consciousness #god #hid #human #human nature

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#character #elevation #faith #gain #give

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#between #conflict #contest #eden #error

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#character #entertainment #highest #human

Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being. ↗

— June Singer

#aspects #being #feminine #human #human being

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cannot #experiment #human #important #justifiable

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. ↗

— Peter Singer

#complex #decision-making #even #human #long-term

If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals. ↗

— Peter Singer

#also #concerned #countries #even #exploitation

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. ↗

— Peter Singer

#close #devise #digital #genome #human

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish. ↗

— Peter Singer

#fish #humane #killed #most #nor