Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we… — Hugh Herr Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us… — Agnivesh Copy Share Image
It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The Golden Rule reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but… — Ben Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The sphere ... which is located beyond our physical world is called the earth zone. It is also known as the zone… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
If Earth is considered a closed system, there will be less for all forever. The frontier is closed, the wilderness is gone,… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
We have progressed in a technological sense, but I'm not so sure whether we have progressed in a civilizational matter - the… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
When I ask the angels for answers to the human mystery, I find they guide me to a sense of peace and… — Terry Taylor Copy Share Image
I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
They say there were birds who used to soar through the skies like planes.It seems strange that a small animal could achieve… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People tend to link "sex and drugs" because both are condemned by society. Nevertheless, throughout the ages human beings have continually searched… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The Greek people have gone through some very difficult times and there's still a hard road ahead, but despite those hardships, Greece… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
The body is what reminds us on a daily basis that we're human. The body defies us, it betrays us, we have… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
There is no regard for human lives, or local national interests. It is because the West, despite its hypocritical rhetoric (political correctness)… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image