#human

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#continuing #controlled #defeat #face #humanity

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#arrive #bright #case #condition #fairy

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#become #civilization #defining #efficiency #force

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#endowed #energetic #human #human resources #lacks

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged. ↗

— Thomas Gilovich

#logic #mind #psychology #attitude

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#how #human #kindness #should #tell

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#action movies #because #caring #days #deal

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#big #children #complete #fan #human

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#administration #eight #four #had #humane

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#been #brethren #content #extraordinary #human