For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Right now we have obtained a human rebirth and have the opportunity to attain enlightenment through Dharma practice, so if we waste… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth,… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by… — Henry Grady Weaver Copy Share Image
By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body,… — Harry J. Anslinger Copy Share Image
Obama has always been, while President, has been close to the Queen of England, and the Queen of England has a standing… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It's wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The enumeration of human values as five - Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence is not correct. They are all facets of… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Abortion is abortion. Maybe you should have more protected sex? But if you get raped and get pregnant why would you keep… — Sean Price Copy Share Image
“Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I'm not opposed to reaching out Hispanics. I'm all for reaching out to everybody! As Americans. Not as members of groups, and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources,… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion… — Tim Green Copy Share Image
Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for… — Anton Myrer Copy Share Image
If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I am continually amazed by the credence given to religious claims in the intellectual community; and, as a human being, i am… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
