#uma

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#confined #human #human species #laughter #privileges

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#arts #both #brutish #dead #divine

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#chooses #cope #every #facilitate #find

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#am #denying #grim #humanity #i

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. ↗

— Angela Carter

#confidence #experience #female #human #human experience

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#character #colours #courage #emerge #friends

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#enjoy #far #go #how #how far

As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#beginning #character #commission #consequence #doubts

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake. ↗

— Neko Case

#bit #humans #i #i think #make

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. ↗

— Willa Cather

#fiercely #go #had #happened #human