When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.
Anna FunderTag: humanity prison human torture trauma ptsd traumatic-experiences traumatic no-longer-human political-prisoner
We know—more from the faces immortalized on a handful of photographs than from the words of survivors—that the women and men who experienced that moment in Hiroshima believed they had encountered the beginning of the end of the world. There will never be enough future to prove them wrong.
Hans Ulrich GumbrechtTag: pain humanity war suffering horror
This trespass had not come without a price. Living un-lives, material comforts and luxuries became superfluous, connection to the outside world undesirable, and power their only sustenance. But they had paid gladly, considering this “humanity” a small price for the power they now wielded; power that would sustain them far beyond the lives of mere humans and perhaps, in time, even grant them immortality.
J. ValorTag: life money power wealth humanity living materialism immortality luxury
Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.
Lisa C. TaylorTag: art humanity literature credo mimesis
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.
Tycho BraheTag: science politics energy humanity mind humanism earth astronomy astronomer statesmen scientist fatherland hold-firm
We have long laboured under an obtuse presupposition that the senses by which other living creatures perceive their world must to a great extent resemble our own; but in fact we are, by scientific invention, only now beginning to approach methods of perception that the whales have always owned as their birthright.
Gavin MaxwellTag: science perception animals humanity nature
High School students in America debate why President Roosevelt didn't bomb the rail lines to Hitler's camps. Their children may ask, a generation from now, why the West stared at far clearer satellite images of Kim Jong Il's camps, and did nothing.
Blaine HardenTag: humanity justice war ignorance
Artist is not human, but humanity.
Raheel FarooqHowever, in this city (San Francisco) that prides itself in being so progressive, it feels like we need to go back and master something both simple as well as incredibly complex – each other. We can learn to embrace our differences without making them a joke or a spectacle.
Crystal SykesTag: humanity race-relations san-francisco
A kind of Providence keeps us blind to the intensity of suffering so as to keep us sane, until that day when the suffering is our own or that of someone we love beyond imagining.
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