#humanity

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#apparatus #challenge #conscience #humanity #legal

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#born #country #everybody #fascism #history

Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#humanity #humans #life #ownership #life

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#accord #does #equality #formally #however

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#divinity #exaltation #humanity #jesus #jesus christ

I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up! ↗

— Candace Cameron Bure

#citizens #closet #comfortable #day #dressed

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#i #justice #lawyer #may #me

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#democracies #deserving #differences #different #form

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#contrariness #ebooks #humanity #internet #reading

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#humanity #library #future