I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence… — Michael Dowd Copy Share Image
To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
[Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This… — Keiko Nobumoto Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage concepts of sin has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000.… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There are a lot of robots who can open clicks. And they can click instead of human beings and this is damaging… — Maurice Levy Copy Share Image
The Church commends the law-makers for their prompt reaction to outlaw same-sex relationships in Nigeria and calls for the bill to be… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image