#human hands

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. ↗

— Leon Kass

#hands #human #human hands #human life #knows

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#also #apart #being #cannot #caused

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ↗

— James Madison

#essence #ever #government #hands #human

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#among #bible #bliss #complex #damnation

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#ago #disappeared #had #hands #happened