Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
Often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It is likely that human beings will find fulfillment and will be rewarded for the same qualities that they have been rewarded… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels,… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God… — Trevor Treharne Copy Share Image
Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been… — Nick Lampson Copy Share Image
... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result?… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
All methods and techniques - and of course all human beings who propound them - are merely instruments to help the student… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave,… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human… — Cristiano Ronaldo Copy Share Image
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
