“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.” — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both the disease and the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Poetry is mother-tongue of the human race; as gardening is older than agriculture; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables,—than deductions; barter,—than… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to… — David Icke Copy Share Image
When we understand that we are a human race, what affects you affects me, what affects her affects you and so on… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every great religion on the planet, regardless of what spiritual or cultural tradition from which it is that it emerges, announces and… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“Atheists and their fellow travelers point to Islamic terrorism as a wake-up call that we'd better abandon God or the biblical disasters… — Richard Yancey Copy Share Image
It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy person whose… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
You'd think after thousands of years on this planet the human race would have released some kind of handbook for teenagers, telling… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“...the incarnation is the complete refutation of every human system and institution that claims to control, possess, and distribute God. Whatever any… — Michael Spencer Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's the alien equivalent of a discarded tomato can. Does a beetle know why it can enter the can only from… — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
“For the first time in nearly twenty-five years, our country is having anything to do with the Chinamen, an it is an… — Winston Groom Copy Share Image
I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“When viewed at the next quantum level of perspective, from which the Earth is seen as an organism and humans are seen… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The history of the human race demonstrates very convincingly that free speech is the exception to the human condition, not the rule.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“As Clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. If she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Religious people tend to encounter, among those who are not, a cemented certainty that belief in God is a crutch for the… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“The fact was I never had the tools for proper living, because my family never had the tools, and I thought the… — Joe Pantoliano Copy Share Image
Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women! — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The greatest contribution that can ever be made to the human race has already been made through the invention of meditation.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain. — Julian May Copy Share Image
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
“The demise of the human race rests mainly on the shoulders of stupidity, and the abuse of power in the hands of… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small part of the human… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
In my opinion, if the human race is going to survive, [religion] is something we definitely need to get over - and… — Scott Clifton Copy Share Image