The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The people of Africa have learned the lessons of patience and endurance in their long struggle for freedom. In a cynical world… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“when you become addict in to MATERIAL things in life then the TRUE natural life start to run away from you, YES!… — Rashedur Ryan Rahman Copy Share Image
To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to… — Muriel Beadle Copy Share Image
While we may continue to use the words smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopoly… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
At stake are the lives of many children who will be discriminated against in advance, and deprived of their human development given… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism.… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Models eat. They're crazy about moderation, but they eat. There's this feeling that all models are into drugs or drinking or whatever,… — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people… — Tana French Copy Share Image
The most outstanding manifestation of negative growth in the spiritual, mental and physical health of the human race through eons of evolution… — Zeina Copy Share Image
Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate… — Ernest Everett Just Copy Share Image
Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really… — James Montgomery Boice Copy Share Image
Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image