Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
My values are primarily motivated by love for other people. I value the non-human world in large part because it's so vital… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at.… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to… — Benjamin Jealous Copy Share Image
Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
We haven't seen a real volcanic event at least in 74,000 years - [Mount Toba] in Indonesia, in Sumatra, where the crater… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There is something in these moments of crisis that is really extraordinary about humanity and human beings' resilience and the way in… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using… — Marilu Henner Copy Share Image
Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for.… — Deb Olin Unferth Copy Share Image
Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of… — Dominique de Menil Copy Share Image
One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while,… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions, but we've got all the language wrong and made this divide… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth"… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides, and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during… — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
I just think that people are so weird about nudity and the human body. Sex is not bad, naked bodies are not… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Demons do not cry. You became a demon, because you couldn't cry anymore right? Humans cry and when their tears finally run… — Alexander Anderson Copy Share Image
Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have… — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image