I have learned a great deal about the evolution of nations, political systems, social doctrines, methods of conquest, persecution, and extermination, and I know, too, that never in the history of mankind, never anywhere in the realm of human relations did anything occur to compare with what was inflicted on the Jewish population of Poland.
In no other human relation do we work so hard to accomplish such an ill defined goal, which is precisely to create a being who will have goals that are not like ours.
Silly as it is, this work says something more profound and complex about human relations than does the overwrought kissing video.
In human relations, it doesn't matter what WE think; it's about how people respond, and their clear response is to walk (or run) away.
"We don't believe in politics, we don't believe in human relations, we don't have God," he says.
The question that nags him isn't so much how to reason through the grand mystery of human relations — "I don't own anything, you don't know shit," he sings on "Sallisaw Blue," dispensing with the idea of a neat resolution — but how to make peace with the fact that people usually muck things up in the end.
"You don't have to be an expert in human relations to do this," she says.
This talented director is not very good at human relations (and I don't mean just master-slave relations — the family scenes, for instance, are intolerably stiff).
Asked if he had learned anything about Pearl Harbor from the movie, or about the war it spawned, he focused instead on the love story, saying, "I learned more about human relations than I did about history".
In those days the council, a group of prominent blacks and whites in Atlanta, called itself a human relations group that did research and studies on the question of race.
