Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings,… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity.… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the… — Damian Conway Copy Share Image
Women have for centuries been recognized as talented listeners, nurturers, motivators, excellent communicators. These very qualities that we once were told were… — Mary Cunningham Agee Copy Share Image
“Think, Penelope, Fulcanelli blurted out. We don't have time for this. You see, humans are the weakest of all the animals because… — Sarah C. Patten Copy Share Image
There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance.… — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth… He whose desires… — Plato Copy Share Image
I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving.… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
I gravitate towards the utopian potentials of digital space (post race, post gender, post human etc.), but understand that people live in… — Saya Woolfalk Copy Share Image
The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is… — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're… — Chico Hamilton Copy Share Image
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So,… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is… — Nayef Al-Rodhan Copy Share Image
It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing… — Ian Gawler Copy Share Image
Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you're paying attention to human interactions - to the gap between who we are and who we think we are, or… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image