No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everyone has experienced laughing at a funeral, and not even inappropriately. It could be a response to a moment of absurdity or… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I feel it's my duty as a human being, as a person who is trying - like everybody else who thinks about… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not… — Alec Reid Copy Share Image
If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Personal credibility has everything to do with how others perceive us and how we perceive ourselves. Sandy Allgeier’s book teaches the all-important… — Michele Borba Copy Share Image
[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am convinced that an electronic machine, no matter how smart and intelligent, being still a mere spatial structure in concept, can… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Attention is riveted on what is tangible, useful, instantly available; the stimulus for deeper thought and reflection may be lacking. Yet human… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
When the state executes a member of the human family, it declares that person worthless, without possibility of redemption. As Christians, we… — Doug Davidson Copy Share Image
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Humans are the only beings that judge and discriminate other human beings by the language they speak, the color of the skin,… — London Mond Copy Share Image
I am really touched and surprised that your generation [of millenials] feels that way, and I'm really happy the work stands up.… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as… — Joel Dicker Copy Share Image
Science has now confirmed what philosophers, mystics, and other intuitive people have long declared: every human being has been literally "engineered for… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; were always thinking about what we did, about how we could… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
I think that as human beings we are all different. On a third dimensional level we're all different but there are two… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the… — Robert J. White Copy Share Image
A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases… — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human… — Marsha P. Johnson Copy Share Image
You go back and look at some of the ancient writings that exist throughout the world about wars and it's the same;… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don't want to take credit… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
So I'd much rather get across the concept of freedom. It's what's important to Indian children. The only way you can be… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
I believe that human beings shouldn't live in climates that they cannot survive naked... and New York, although full of energy and… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image