I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve… — Conrad Hall Copy Share Image
“Human beings love, despite their compulsions to limit it and exploit it chaotically. Their love persuades them to make vows, build houses… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
We've all got to get together and demand something better out of our government and out of each other. We've got a… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think religion is very anti-man. I think it's a terrible distortion and exploitation of a very natural urge every human has… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
As one who knows many things, the humanist loves the world precisely because of its manifold nature and the opposing forces in… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
You just did a whole read-through. The lie that brought us into war was that Iraq was a threat to us. Well,… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My parents were great in the sense that they treated me like a human being when I was growing up. They showed… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears,… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
As much as he's been through, he's so alive and open to change. That's what I wanted to channel and I feel… — Kofi Siriboe Copy Share Image
Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't… — Caroline Paul Copy Share Image
After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Part of the reason you see so little about this in the Western media is that Iraq was closed off from the… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Human myopia cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build [climate] models that purport to peer decades and centuries ahead. Action… — Colin Robinson Copy Share Image
Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I was educated in line with the basic premise: work work work. You are only a valuable human being if you work.… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
In some cases, I allow the edge of the set, the edge of my own artificial, artistic imposition, to show up because… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
States can be more or less democratic, and so can socialism. I think any ideal society that exists on a large scale,… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image