The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image. — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development. — Michael Fox Copy Share Image
Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights.… — Wayne Smith Copy Share Image
Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I must admit that many humans have a strong need to perceive life as in some sense benign and potentially happy. It… — Stephan A. Hoeller Copy Share Image
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
I'm human," he said in a tormented tone. "And I'm not." He dropped his hand to her shoulder. "I never knew softness,"… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
When we unravel the theological tomes of the ages, the makeup of God becomes quite clear. God is a human being without… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm… — Dana Stabenow Copy Share Image
To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life. — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real. — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race — Hugo Rahner Copy Share Image
God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family. — Margaret Clarkson Copy Share Image
Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Last night I dreamed I was still human, but now I have woken up, into something better. Farewell, my friends, farewell. — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
We're human beings and the sun is the sun-how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
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