Human Affairs Quotes

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After all, our opponents are human. The proper use of an ad hominem argument, however, still requires evidence to back it up.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first category: you can pick one of several possible solutions, pass a bill, and (allowing for some tinkering around the edges) it will happen.