“As the virtual world of electronic communication becomes the world many of us inhabit all the time, in turning to imaginative literature… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. Humans. Altogether a contradictory and deeply… — katherine applegate Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all… — Eric L. Haney Copy Share Image
The roots of all conflicts could be traced to the violation of human rights. When we think of violation of human rights,… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
“Last, but by no means least, the advance of technology has produced a human population that is far more helpless and dependent… — Dmitry Orlov Copy Share Image
“The Stoic discovers the model for his virtuous conduct in studying the laws of nature; just as each object, plant, and animal… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
“You came here [to this life] to enjoy the fullness of the creative experience. [Both smooth and rough patches]. In the process,… — Suzanne Giesemann Copy Share Image
Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
“...the natural world had gone badly wrong. Everything that mankind is doing on the planet had upset the delicate balance of nature.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind! Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
“This island of Earth of ours is finite in resources, including wilderness- particularly wilderness. The dwindling worldwide reservoir of wild lands must… — David Brower Copy Share Image
From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview,… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face ... People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
“Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“In other words we humans seek to outwit and control each other not just because of some tangible goal in the outside… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together.… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“It is a fact that if an impulse from one or the other sphere comes up and is not lived out, then… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Throughout history, the human species has struggled to some extent. It's part of us, as human beings, to provide better for our… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
No human quality belongs to only one class of person. We all get to be both aggressive and loving. We all get… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but 'love' means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign… — Qiu Miaojin Copy Share Image
“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image