The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire… — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Today is Earth Day. The way I see it, as humans the very least we can do is recycle. A lot of… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I've always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They don't fake or hide their feelings, and they are… — Pink Copy Share Image
My dream is to make families a place where adults with high self esteem can develop. I think we have reached a… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet. "Is it that… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
No generation can do another generation's work for it. What we human beings can do at most is to mark out the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
“That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex.… — Emily Maguire Copy Share Image
You want to belong, you want to be here. In interactions with others you're constantly waiting to see that they recognize that… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music… — Ted Shawn Copy Share Image
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as the self of the human being is the centerpoint of the plurality of manifestations of his life of soul, so… — Valentin Tomberg Copy Share Image
Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90… — Xaviera Hollander Copy Share Image
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I still couldn’t stop the sick feeling rising in my stomach. “This could be a disaster.” “How? If anyone even finds it—and… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, not between classes, nor between… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel… — Hank Wesselman Copy Share Image
I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on… — Ed Ayres Copy Share Image
All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
