In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so… — Andre Norton Copy Share Image
I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say. — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply.… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a… — John Stott Copy Share Image
It is essential for evolution to become the central core of any educational system, because it is evolution, in the broad sense,… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
One of the things I admire so much about Atom Egoyan is that again and again he makes movies about the human… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
We all bear within us the potentiality for every kind of passion, every fate, every way of life. Nothing human is alien… — Max Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart. — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
No human being...is ever conceived outside God's will or ever conceived apart from God's image. Life is a gift from God created… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God is life; and in that life which is God there are no years. ... The human sense of life is not… — Joel S. Goldsmith Copy Share Image
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Would you like to do something good for the future of the human race; well, start killing some of its powerful members. — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox — David Foreman Copy Share Image
There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all — Bjork Copy Share Image
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This is a place for ordinary human compassion of the kind that is reconciling — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
My hand will always be imperfect because it's human… I think that's where the beauty is. — Margaret Kilgallen Copy Share Image
For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters. — Charles Traub Copy Share Image
I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues. — Grimes Copy Share Image
