All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be…

“New York City manages expertly, and with marvelous predictability, whatever it considers humanly important. Fax machines, computers, automated telephones and even messengers on bikes…

— Jonathan Kozol

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives…

— Steven Pinker

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over…

— Max Stirner

Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and…

— Thomas Sowell

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do…

— Vilém Flusser

Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's…

— John Stuart Mill

This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of…

— Winston Churchill

I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most…

— Matthew Simpson

For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian…

— Allen W. Wood

I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.…

— Stanley Milgram

Most conservatives - by which I mean normal people - have little conception of the aggressive and revolutionary force that confronts them. It is…

— Tom Bethell

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions…

— Dorothea Lange

“Take sex, for instance.' 'What do you want me to do with it?' 'Try to be serious for a moment. Take the sex life…

— John Mortimer

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends…

— Jay Leno

“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of…

— Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974