I do not know of any divine commands. I do know of most important human ones. I do not know the needs… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Isn't it odd I've made some friends in the Republican Party, but that's in spite of the fact that I cannot agree… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Between two beings there is always the barrier of words. Man has so many ears and speaks so many languages. Should it… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Look at the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example. If you look at a map from 1947 to now, you'll see that Israel has… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than… — V. Raymond Edman Copy Share Image
We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law;… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy,… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the… — Adam Kokesh Copy Share Image
In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury raised cautions against mass media, especially the television, which dumb down human sensibilities and coerce everybody's thoughts… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Showing a real human body and a woman who is looking at her body without shame - that alone is a radical… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
The preceding criticism justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a… — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in… — David Platt Copy Share Image
How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
This is the way we win over our enemies, not with bigger weapons, or faster ships, but with human courage, ingenuity, and… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy.… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
