What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds… — Abdelaziz Bouteflika Copy Share Image
It is easy to love perfection. The difficulty consists in loving the human with his good and bad. We mostly know as… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the way someone falling down in the… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
It will always hurt to be laughed at, snubbed, ignored or attacked by others. But I would remind you that the human… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Normal people, fear the day their parents die. Screwed up people, fear that their parents are going to live forever. Showing up… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks… — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
As a professional athlete, I have an incredible platform to inspire, impact, and deeply affect another human being. It sets my soul… — Joanna Lohman Copy Share Image
I know that I've had a very fortunate life, but also I think my job as an actor is to connect emotionally… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life. — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly. — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives. — Jorge Garcia Copy Share Image
The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus! — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image