Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I'm too tired to reign over vampirekind, let alone enslave the human race. — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
And I started to cry again, realizing that it must be changing him, too, this man who was kind enough to be… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something? — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I believe that it's vital for children and teens to be educated, to be given information to help them understand the impacts… — Jayni Chase Copy Share Image
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking… — Skip Horack Copy Share Image
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty. What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect,… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to… In that kind of world, [the] only place… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.” — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty. — George Eliot Copy Share Image