Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion! — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions. — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money… — David Chase Copy Share Image
The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about… — Sada Thompson Copy Share Image
It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
We're all human. After 10, 15 years you get tired, you run out of steam and ideas, you have to give a… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal.… — Mick LaSalle Copy Share Image
The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
There is a majority of scientists that say that global carbon emissions by humans causes some changes in the climate. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's. — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded. — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
If there was a little more light and truth in the world through one human being, his life has had meaning. — Alfred Delp Copy Share Image
Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human. — Benjamin Stone Copy Share Image
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends ... — Tim Smit Copy Share Image
