We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks minimize… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't have paparazzi following me. Because I'm a human character, it's different. The vampires get a lot of attention, and then… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not… — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
When humans understand Tao, we understand the Tao within ourselves, not the true Tao. Tao doesn't belong to any one or any… — Henry Chang Copy Share Image
I believe there's no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended. They're created and sustained by human beings. They can… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear,… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
Good will is a power that can be used every day of the year and every hour of the day. It is… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Difference is always the biggest challenge for humans. That's why we do enjoy reading or watching movies or watching TV. It's a… — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming… — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes… — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What it gives any human being a right to - to pick and choose which embryo - which fetus is more valuable… — Nadya Suleman Copy Share Image
Consider that we live in a world predicated upon fear. The underlying assumption is that human beings are innately evil and must… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The love of husband and wife, which is creative of new human life, is a marvellously personal sharing in the creative love… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
The result of these ungodly unions was a race of very wicked and very powerful hybrid (half-fallen angel, half-human) offspring - the… — Chuck Missler Copy Share Image
