#um

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand. ↗

— Ferdowsi

#could #elephants #helmet #host #jewels

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#days #humanitarian #impulse #very #well

We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day. ↗

— Neil Finn

#day #say #tantrum #threw #used

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#assume #based #convictions #incorrect #know

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#ageism #basic #being #community #deny

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. ↗

— Robert Frost

#back #bank #begins #fair #lend

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

#bringing #contribute #disaster #every #field

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#cage #existence #hollering #human #keep

As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

#break #constantly #day #find #go

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#evil #heart #human #human heart #may