#human

I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#anything #big #career #distorted #enlarging

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same. ↗

— Ron Wood

#could #got #human #iron #keep

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also. ↗

— Fred Woodworth

#also #any #bad #being #beings

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#beauty #capable #dignity #does #excitement

Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish. ↗

— Sōseki Natsume

#life-and-living #living #observe #selfish #life

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. ↗

— Frances Wright

#alike #appear #assertion #assign #assume

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it. ↗

— Frances Wright

#every #human #human being #knowledge #may

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood? ↗

— Francis Wright

#been #civilized #civilized nations #engaged #enlightened

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention. ↗

— Francis Wright

#bounds #contention #error #ever #facts

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#else #fine #human #human values #valuable