#human

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#despots #fact #generous #humanity #liberation

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#am #appendix #believe #conception #conferred

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do. ↗

— Jerry Kramer

#beings #children #decent #hope #human

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.' ↗

— Karl Kraus

#beast #behaves #human #i #like

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that. ↗

— Peter Krause

#human #human rights #i #like #political

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#brief #brief moment #death #disappear #endless

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#human #humanity #only #together #up

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#elite #fraction #humanity #more #productive

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#about #along #behaviour #cloning #computer

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#ants #armies #beings #capture #ceaselessly