Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits,… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Like almost every major infrastructure, the Internet can be abused and its users harmed. We must, however, take great care that the… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots;… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Ever since I became a Muslim ... I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always… — Wong Kiew Kit Copy Share Image
When you're a 20-something grassroots activist, and you're deciding how to spend your time and money to make a difference, it makes… — Rod Coronado Copy Share Image
The question was, 'Is there a way of minimizing the amount of damage you're doing so that you can then study cells… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do… — Greta Van Susteren Copy Share Image
What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
If you believe one of the biggest problems confronting the country is overregulation by this administration, the single most effective way to… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here… — Fritz Todt Copy Share Image
I'm very realistic about the challenges we face. OK? I have seen it up close in 2010. It's why I ran for… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms?… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The music industry has changed drastically and that damages young artists. They don't have the same support system that we had. They… — Cliff Richard Copy Share Image
Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I am a leader in the fight against the national energy tax proposal some Congressional leaders are advocating. I call this bad… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
I've never really felt that being part of a literary community is all that important. It can be extremely detrimental to a… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented -… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
That's what Donald Trump said when he starts talking about, "The Second Amendment people might have..." "You're not taking my guns. No… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success.… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
I think she by this point has learned that Stark's not specifically responsible for her parents' death - that it's more something… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential… — C. Robert Kehler Copy Share Image
Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack first, we may gain the… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
In the long run, however much damage we come through, Obama's vision is the one that's going to be left standing. It's… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
