“Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies,cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms-greed… — Gordon Gekko Copy Share Image
If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“De Selby likens the position of a human on the earth to that of a man on a tight-wire who must continue… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions,” he wrote a Brooklyn minister. “Our inner balance and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
“(My greatest human flaw and strength, not surprisingly, is that I can always imagine anything--a marriage, a conversation, a government--as being different… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The moment you try to theorize basic human values, you inadvertently start digging your own grave, and that's exactly what the whole… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What is the influence of Sun Tzu in the world today? Perhaps there are others who are better qualified than I to… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“Monster a person though monster not human. Monster like music. Like Beatles! Like Schumann! World full of stupid. World full of noise.… — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his… — Boethius Copy Share Image
We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“While our species continues to manufacture its radically different and untested all-human world, the rest of life should be allowed to endure,… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“discrimination had to be justified by “scientific” evidence showing that human nature differs according to age, gender, and “race.” Until the 1700s,… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation-… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“So long as one remains in the same condition, the inclinations which result from habit and are the least natural to us… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Humankind paid for its lofty vision and industrious hands with backaches and stiff necks. Women paid extra. An upright gait required narrower… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization. Everyone is hypnotized by production and comfort -- sewage system, elevator, bathroom, washing machine.… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Humanity must become aware that if we take away the beautiful beings of nature, we will take the beauty out of the… — Paul Oxton Copy Share Image
Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
When we talk about global crisis, or a crisis of humanity, we cannot blame a few politicians, a few fanatics, or a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“We are all individuals as one within the cosmic collective. Each a single droplet in the sea of humanity. We all think… — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
“This may be why Einstein once said; "Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Human labor, in general, is still divided into two exclusive categories: the first—solely intellectual and managerial—includes the scientists, artists, engineers, inventors, accountants,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“For I, Sinuhe, am a human being. I have lived in everyone who existed before me and shall live in all who… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co workers… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
As a matter of principle, humanity is precarious: each person can only believe what he recognizes to be true internally and, at… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“In the monotheistic age, God was viewed as the one who causes and does everything, and hence humans were not entitled to… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“All of human civilization... is basically a result of immortality projects: the cities and governments and structures and authorities in places today… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
