The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance.… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It is essential for evolution to become the central core of any educational system, because it is evolution, in the broad sense,… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence;… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Many people question their religious identity today, not necessarily by thinking of converting to Judaism or to Islam: it's just that technologies… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anyone can love a virtue, but a good human being is he or she who loves even vicious people. Everyone Loves the… — Lokendra Singh Copy Share Image
We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm always shocked that gay marriage is such a big deal. You have to realize how precious human life is, when there… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
You can exercise vigorously and eat junk and get by. But you can't eat perfectly and not exercise. Look at many athletes… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Only by advocating 'politically unrealistic' CO2 concentrations can runaway global warming be avoided. But what is politically realistic for humans is whollymunrelated… — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image