Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves — George Soros Copy Share Image
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
“We humans give ourselves such airs, even aggrandizing our poky little ‘sins’ to the level of cosmic significance!” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media.” — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form. — David Hanson Copy Share Image
“We all know the true nature of the human soul, because we have all looked into the eyes of children, and saw… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival. — Jeremy Gilley Copy Share Image
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Humanity is something we're lacking, and I will continue to do my job to bring back those attributes that we lack today… — George Hill Copy Share Image
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
Once again...Rick Bass draws us into his magical human worlds, rendered urgently by a hypnotic prose that tracks a parallel and untamed… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
“[W]ithout changing the most molecular relationships in society — notably, those between men and women, adults and children, whites and other ethnic… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Work is the activity which corresponds to the unnaturalness of human existence, which is not imbedded in, and whose mortality is not… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and… — Francois Maspero Copy Share Image