Human Effort Quotes

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.