#uma

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs. ↗

— Edward Bond

#human #human affairs #just #never #plays

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. ↗

— Edward Bond

#being #greeks #human #human being #meant

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#dignity #human #human dignity #terrorism

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars. ↗

— Giotto di Bondone

#frail #heart #human #human heart #reach

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#aiming #been #commodity #democracy #focus

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#activity #brain #far #human #human brain

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. ↗

— George Saunders

#connection #feel #human #left #might

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people. ↗

— Pat Boone

#caring #democrats #figures #humane #liberal

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#greatest #human #human souls #look #makes

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#human-impact #industrial-revolution #death