[Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas,… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light.… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
I advance no exaggerated or fanciful claim for Vegetarianism. It is not, as some have asserted, a "panacea" for human ills; it… — Henry Stephens Salt Copy Share Image
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We humans...are seriously flawed. The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world,… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness.… — Huineng Copy Share Image
Take all the Syrians, for example. They are where they need to be. They don't need saving. They are having their experiences… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think one of the concerns, anytime you're in the human business, like sports, it's a very high - risk endeavor. You… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though." "What help?" Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
Human needs are served by a sustainable lifestyle, almost by definition, if humans include coming generations. And a shift to such technologies… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as… — Leigh Brackett Copy Share Image
Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
It is most often not our strengths, our courage or our successes that bring two human hearts together, but it is often… — Stefanie Schneider Copy Share Image
Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the… — Lewis Cass Copy Share Image
To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image