Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts. — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness. — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe. — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
My parents are big liberals and taught us to never trust a government that rids their people of basic human rights. — Andrea Suarez Paz Copy Share Image
5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular… — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The deliberate weakening of the labour movement by the machinations of market fundamentalists, gaining momentum during the periods when Margaret Thatcher led… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today… — Dziga Vertov Copy Share Image
It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When all the mysticism is stripped away, the people who comprise the government (the legislators, administrators, judges, and policemen), are guided by… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy - it is already too late for that… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Both Christianity and Islam are logocentric,” he told his students, “meaning they are focused on the Word. In Christian tradition, the Word… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
When you have done the spiritual growing up you realize that every human being is of equal importance, has work to do… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts,… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
