The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned,… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity." — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When the concept of human spirit is understood as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the Cosmos… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and… — Meir Shalev Copy Share Image
I have never, so far, in all the studies I have done, met a contradiction between what the human, experimental and natural… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
... human free will implies God's prior decision not to tamper with the metaphysical base of that free will. It also implies… — Don Richardson Copy Share Image
Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically:… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized – the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less. ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Many researchers do feel that humankind may have to face another Great Cleansing, such as the Great Flood of world mythology. Again,… — Brad Steiger Copy Share Image
We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but… — Marton Csokas Copy Share Image
We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional,… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly… — Robert Sirico Copy Share Image
So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain.… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“But you will not spare a drop of pity because I am rich? We have death in our gilded courts, too. We… — Stefan Bachmann Copy Share Image
As a human being, the way Jesus responded to God in faithful obedience and gave his life in service to other humans-is… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
I was raised to believe in the innate goodness of humanity, developed a deep sense of the dignity of the individual human… — George Lee Butler Copy Share Image
As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
It's not that I prefer black girls, but that's who I find myself relating to as a human being. I am also… — Jon B Copy Share Image
