Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do. — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
People heal from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Whenever a nation turns its back on God or beings to live as if He does not exist, it begins to show… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects. — John Dee Copy Share Image
My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens. — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
[John] Adams never had an optimistic view of human nature, and his experience in the Congress and abroad only deepened his suspicion… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening… — Ron Livingston Copy Share Image
The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's… — Richard D. Zanuck Copy Share Image
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine,… — Mary Griffith Copy Share Image
The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as of something going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?"… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
What would human life be without forests, those natural cities? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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