The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves.
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.
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
