An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“It can even be thought that radium could become very dangerous in criminal hands, and here the question can be raised whether… — Pierre Curie Copy Share Image
Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
There's politics. When you talk about Asia - no one really wants to approach that full-force because it's very thin ice. No… — Veronika Varekova Copy Share Image
Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“There is no harm in deceiving society as long as she does not find you out, because it is only when she… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“You may not be able to do anything about how you feel; but you can do something about how you act. People… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and… — Pat Derby Copy Share Image
You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If any harm is to come to Turkey's border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being… — Ahmet Davutoglu Copy Share Image
On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Let us, then, try what love will do, for if people once see we love them, we should soon find that they… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't struggle to forgive people. I find it quite easy to forgive people for the harms that they have inflicted on… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of… — Bob Ney Copy Share Image
I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I often think people on opposite sides of the political spectrum may have similar values around care, around thriving or around independence,… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
To think that we are disconnected in some way serves the occupation whether it's through indifference or a distancing. It is a… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate;… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Hate is a terrible thing. It's a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it'll never do… — Stuart Neville Copy Share Image
Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The passion of fear (as a modern philosopher informs me) determines the spirits of the muscles of the knees, which are instantly… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of… — David Rosen Copy Share Image
It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
“If we harm someone else, we’re inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image