We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The bigger question is how does a rogue species called humans - whose population just blew through the seven billion mark on… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted - not in… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we want, make it absolutely clear in our minds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes that irrational commitment to principle is what society needs to survive. Whenever you talk about radicalism, whenever you talk about activism,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or… — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe" le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking… — Otis Williams Copy Share Image
The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth.… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the 1980s, I was working to reform the schools in Arkansas. Donald Trump was borrowing $14 million from his father to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
And when you start using a lot of psychedelics, and particularly a lot of the natural psychedelics, my experience has been that… — D. M. Turner Copy Share Image
Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In my opinion, if the human race is going to survive, [religion] is something we definitely need to get over - and… — Scott Clifton Copy Share Image
What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I… — Frances Conroy Copy Share Image
Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image