#human

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all. ↗

— Arvo Part

#human voice #instrument #most #perfect #voice

The only law that means anything - that can have anything to do with God - is one that is alive and that strives for justice given the circumstances of the present. Otherwise, the law is merely something dead, a weapon in the hands of those with power. Against those with none. ↗

— Nafisa Haji

#inspirational #justice #law #inspirational

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#artist #complexity #human-being #life #multiplicity

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#desires #flourished #good #held #humanity

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life. ↗

— Anthony Perkins

#adventure #aids #competitive #did #ever

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers. ↗

— Richard Perle

#does #example #few #for example #france

Sharing your success with others reveals your true humanity. Don't ever be afraid to open your heart to that practice. It has made all the world of difference to me. ↗

— Andrea Michaels

#success #business

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#age #biggest #biggest problems #century #face

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#bible #human #human nature #learn #living

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human. ↗

— Bijou Phillips

#been #human #i #like #object