Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics;… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that… — Margaret Spellings Copy Share Image
To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
I don't want to be considered a hero… Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to… — Miep Gies Copy Share Image
A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Reverential human acts of submission and homage before the divine Sovereign, in response to his gracious revelation of himself, and in accordance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Of one thing we can be sure: our own future is inseparable from the larger community that brought us into being and… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
He's convinced most human adults do not know how to play anymore and that playing is one of the best ways to… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health.… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable,… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat.,… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The Christian... imagines the better future of the human species... in the image of heavenly joy... We, on the other hand, will… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own… — Lucinda Riley Copy Share Image
Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy,… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I associate the garden with the whole experience of being alive, and so, there is nothing in the range of human experience… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that the people of the United States will… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides,… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
![“I don't want to be considered a hero… Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.” quote by Miep Gies](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/9ec/miep-gies-32151_duty_i-don-t-want-to-be-considered-a-hero-ima_207762.jpg)
![“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]” quote by Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c20/marcus-junius-brutus-the-young_affair_what-can-be-happier-than-for-a-man-consc_735053.jpg)
