#uma

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#advertising #brokerage #business #cannot #constructive

Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity. ↗

— Charles Colson

#children #christians #cost #currently #day

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#degraded #humanity #more

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#activity #agriculture #answer #ask #change

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#cataclysmic #chemists #conceived #created #environment

I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#habitat #humanity #i #worked

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#been #friendly #human #man #most

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa. ↗

— Horst Koehler

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Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human. ↗

— Kevin Conroy

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