Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.
Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.
There were about two years when I literally paid no rent anywhere in the world. Everyone's a contact, but there's no real human interaction. That's a very wearying thing.
I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
Billy Martin was a human tragedy, in the real sense of the words.
If we are serious about our human wellbeing - from local communities to the global world economy - we need to now reconnect our entire world to the planet.
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.
I'm really into the human interest thing. I really like regular people.
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.
We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents and grandparents. Blacks were shackled for the early part of that relay race, and although many of the fetters have come off, whites have developed a huge lead.
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
I'm drawn to the taboos that surround the human body. I find it fascinating that we are repelled by many of the acts and processes that keep us alive.
It's human when you get the sense that somebody likes you or is attracted to you - unless you're just completely repulsed by the person - I find that my first reaction is to entertain the idea.
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
