To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman the way… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
“I do not think men are good at all. I have seen enough to know that humans are a wicked race from… — Brondt Kamffer Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching… — Jason 'J' Brown Copy Share Image
Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition.… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I soak up personalities and energy. I can identify with anything because truthfully everything that makes up the world is characterized in… — Aeriel Miranda Copy Share Image
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the world, men place all or most of the burden of raising children and maintaining the home on women, but… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
[T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“If man was created in God's likeness, then God must have just got rid of the trash when he threw man down… — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
Vision is the Source and hope of life. The greatest gift ever given to mankind is not the gift of sight, but… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Those walls and bars are there for a reason,” said Crake. “Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My idea is, that if capital and labor are left alone they will mutually regulate each other. People who think they can… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“O Heavenly Children, God's messengers are as limitless as the fish in the sea. They come in all colors, regions, languages and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I believe in dreams. I believe that every night on the planet everything that is, was and can be is dreamt. I… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind.… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions,… — Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Copy Share Image
This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest -… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image