#human

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#fact #half #human #human beings #now

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole. ↗

— Robert Barany

#co-operate #convinced #experiment #humanity #i

This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#centuries #come #did #earlier #event

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to. ↗

— Susie Bright

#beings #human #human beings #like #partnership

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. ↗

— Vera Brittain

#expression #human #immaturity #politics #usually

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. ↗

— Patrick Campbell

#courage #fundamental #gulf #heart #human

If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people. ↗

— Robert Caro

#cost #effect #effects #good #how

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#bringing #conditions #hard #human #human personality

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#basically #been #being #chocolate #consumed

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#being #coming #course #human #human being