The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
With a horse, if you make it easy for him to do the right thing, that's what he will logically do, but… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or… — Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
When I am in Tibet, I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. The Dalai Lama's holiness generates… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
You are a child of the universe, "fearfully and wonderfully made." In the history of creation, there has never been anyone like… — Douglas Bloch Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
As a full-time, and serious-minded, UFO investigator, I strongly side with the proponents. It seems indisputable that the phenomenon is real, and… — Peter Davenport Copy Share Image
Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version… — Seth Copy Share Image
God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies!… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
President Bush and Bill Clinton both agree that cloning is morally wrong. Clinton said that he thinks humans should be made the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. We are all one interdependent organism, so our focus… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same… — Densey Clyne Copy Share Image
“I was familiar with humans at this point only from afar, but even from there, I found them a pitiable species: scaleless,… — Patrick Jennings Copy Share Image
“Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s point of view, this is a distinction… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The people in Arab countries are now speaking out and asking many questions about human rights, minorities, religion, democracy, "the other," and… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or… — Garland Waller Copy Share Image
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of… — David Hume Copy Share Image