We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Excellence in life seems to me to be the way in which each human being makes the most of the adventure of… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of the nation, actually. In Cicero's time, there was this idea that although we were members… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
War to me is very much like sex. You can develop a theory that says sex is primarily for the exchange of… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I�m a human being, and these things that have happened… — Gary Coleman Copy Share Image
How can I act in an impersonal manner? When a man dies in the street for want of food, how can I… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Because all writers are human beings first and writers second, my guess is that any advice for living with a writer is… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“One of the worst things about human beings is that most of them never change their minds about anything. They pick one… — C.K. Vile Copy Share Image
Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Originally this was the most important thing about martial arts - to reach a higher level, to become a strong human being.… — Tsutomu Ohshima Copy Share Image
Every word you utter to another human being has an effect, but you don't know it. If people begin to understand that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What we're doing is saying what happens with the establishment and how are we as ordinary human beings are used as pawns.… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competing, because there's room for everyone. You have to compete with yourself, because your duty to grow as… — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated… — James Agee Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
