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Human Hands Quotes

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world. Paulo Freire
He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand. Barbara Kingsolver
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
Leon Kass quote: "Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a..."
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. Leon Kass
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward. Jane Addams
And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own. Richard Bach
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
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
More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself. Gabriel Heatter
James Madison quote: "The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it..."
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. James Madison
Willa Cather quote: "The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by..."
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. Willa Cather
Friedrich Schiller quote: "Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the..."
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. Friedrich Schiller
Ambrose Bierce quote: "HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human..."
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket. Ambrose Bierce
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Katherine Anne Porter
Lewis Thomas quote: "Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at..."
Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. Lewis Thomas

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