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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. ↗

— William Hurt

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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes. ↗

— King Hussein I

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